Hurry up to see! The Russian Theatre Calgary presents to your attention a play in the genre of folk comedy “MIRIAM”.

The author is a writer Oleg Yuryev, known not only in Russia but also abroad.

The play “Miriam” was written in 1984 in Leningrad, the first in his “Jewish” cycle.
Here he outlined the main contours of his future creative themes: the inconspicuous, one might even say “gray” life of average, unremarkable and unremarkable people and the fate of one of these people – an innocent victim of circumstances. Jewish nationality is far from a random choice. A special local flavor, style of behavior, everyday details, peculiarities of speech – all this is there, to his themes. And the beginning of the 80s is strange, uncertain. And not to the Jews, not to the “grayness”, not to everyday life…

Into the small cozy world of the girl Miriam, who lived for herself, not bothering anyone, the war bursts in, or rather, endless changes of power, and along with these changes – now a white officer, now an ataman, now a red commander (the most terrible character in this story).

Director Valery Pashchuk uses a minimum of scenery, putting the characters’ personalities in the foreground.