Sergey Schedrin

Every day, Semyon catches up on sleep on the train that takes him to prison. There, he puts on a robe and tries to quickly get rid of the routine medical work with prisoners in order to return to his personal, everyday routine. An emergency at work suddenly interferes with his viscous existence, forcing Semyon to choose between compromising his conscience or preserving his humanity.

Based on the play Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin, Dmitry Krymov’s Boris is a metaphor about the fate of Russia, its rulers and eternal values, subverting its ideas behind the cover of Pushkin’s text to show a direct line of the current governance of Russia with its imperial past, as well as all the myths on which Russian identity now rests. A flying raven, a poet, a folk choir, saints and sinners, living and dead - all come to life in the twilight of the Provision Warehouses of the Moscow Museum in this new interpretation of a classic work by one of the world’s most renowned stage directors.