Ob-lom-ov-shchina was the first performance made by Sergei Zhenovach’s course, and, of course, it is about childhood.  The play begins and ends with a dream, but not with a dream of the grown man Ilya Ilich, but of the young boy Ilyusha.  He is the main hero.  Ilyusha has great ambitions in his dreams.  Ambitions of dreams.  For only in his dreams can everything be as calm as in his childhood.  But ‘to have ambitions’ and ‘to dream’ are synonyms.  How can we know whether a person is sleeping or dreaming?  In Ob-lom-ov-shchina lullabies and chorales are sung, apples are hung out to dry, newborn chicks are reared and people take joy in the light of the sun.

The premiere was held on 5/05/2003
Performance duration: 2 h. 30 min.

Staged by:
Direction — German Sidakov
Scene Design — Maria Utrobina
Composition — Vitaly Galutva.

Performed by:
Maria Shashlova, Sergei Abroskin, Tatyana Volkova, Andrei Shibarshin, Olga Kalashnikova, Alexei Vertkov, Alexander Lutoshkin, Maksim Lyutikov, Sergei Pirniak, Grigory Sluzhitel, Tikhon Kotrelev, Alexander Oblasov, Anna Rud, Yuri Shibanov, Tatyana Vasilkina, Anastasia Imamova, Miriam Sekhon.