Varvara Shmykova in the play-dialogue 'Club of Broken Hearts.'

Starring theater and film actors Varvara Shmykova and Nikita Elenyev. Reflections on the essence of love with references to modern and classical works of art literature and poetry.

An open and honest conversation about love between the actors and the audience, where each viewer can see a piece of themselves. Varvara Shmykova and Nikita Elenyev, along with guests of the Club of Broken Hearts, will experience the joys and pains of human relationships, inspired by great texts about love. Perhaps, on this evening, it will be possible to come closer to the answer to the main question: What is love?

The performance features texts by Michel Houellebecq, James Joyce, Veronika Tushnova, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Nikolay Zabolotsky, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Ostrovsky, Vera Polozkova, and other authors.

'What to stage in our times? The answer is simple. Only that which is so lacking in a world obsessed with battles. About love! Art hasn't yet found a way to talk about the global not through the personal, after all, it is created by a person. To talk about love in the world, one must first and foremost talk about love within us.' - Alexander Rubtsov, collab.am

Those who worked on the play: Playwright - Karina Besolti Director - Igor Sharoyko, Varvara Shmykova Idea author - Mikhail Dyagtyaryov, Varvara Shmykova, Mikhail Shamkov Actors - Varvara Shmykova, Nikita Elenyev Lighting designer and sound engineer: Yuri Galkin Produced by ARETE