Leonid Persiyaninov

A funny musical based on the comedy "The Duenna" by British dramatist Richard B. Sheridan.

In one of the steppe regions of Kazakhstan arrives on Komsomol youth squad. Severe frosts, spring mud flows, exhausting work than their specialty - the development of virgin land does not come easy. But the young are young - they work, enjoy life, fall in love. In the center of the story - the touching romance secretary of the Komsomol organization and tractor driver Anne.

A group of Soviet military diplomats needs to get to Stockholm. But direct flight is impossible, there is a war going on, so they go to Sweden via Cairo, where they stay for several days. From Cairo, Petrov’s group flies to Cape Town. But the plane our heroes are flying on crashes over the jungles of Africa...

The action takes place during the years of the Civil War in the Urals. It is difficult for the young woman Nadia Korneeva to make sense of the events unfolding around her. Having endured much grief and gone through numerous trials, she decides to join a Red Guard unit.

The heroes of the play are the father and son, the Raskatovs, whose lives are marked by the echoes of the past war: the father, a prominent military leader, dies from wounds sustained during the war; the son perishes while disarming a Nazi chemical weapons depot.

In one communal apartment, the question of moving one of the doors a little to the side and increasing the area of the room - by only one and a half square meters. In the end, this "complicated" issue had to be solved almost at the highest level.