Privates

Follows the love between journalist Anna Knyazeva and Nikolai Malyshev, a surgeon at one of the city hospitals.

The play tells the story of the last year of the life of the legendary French actress Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah's life is coming to an end. She must hurry to tell the truth about herself, so she writes her memoirs.

The heroine of the comedy is Frosya, a mother of five children and a calf-maiden, who lives in a run-down village and doesn't want to leave her native home, her "stove on wheels." The lead role is played by Natalia Tenyaeva. The true city dweller is remarkably natural in the role of a simple village girl. The actress borrowed her manner of speech from a local villager whose house was near the summer house Tenyaeva rented.

Satirical operetta-buffe in three acts by composer Jacques Offenbach.