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Summary
Based on a play written by a leading "5-th" columnist, humorist Victor Shenderovich, strongly anti-Putin. Somewhat surprisingly for such an author, and in a theater of absurd twist, Petrov and Boshirov are telling the truth, and are somehow saving the world from nuclear apocalypse (about to be brought by Russia). (I am not sure many will get the point; surprising that this is staged in UK at all; only 4 performances and half of them in Russian ??? --Resup (talk) 15:26, 3 March 2019 (UTC) )

Shenderovich reads play bits, Echo Moskvy video, Jan 1, 2019
 * The play is quite good, Russian humor/arts wise, +maybe a character study, but with zero investigative or other hard substance content. I'd think it is quite untranslatable culturally and may be essentially disconnected with things British, so premier in London is quite a 'mystery'. It is Kharms-kind; not sure Kharms is appreciated in the West (present on Amazon, alright). Maybe goes back to supporting Soviet dissidents mind-frame; or unclear what's the economics side of it, with two sets of actual actors and other production costs. Interesting how those things work. I suppose to have a World  Premier of a play in London would be quite an achievement for any author, and is pretty competitive  --Resup (talk) 19:36, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Official play description, tickets info, etc here.
 * English and Russian descriptions differ. In the Russian description ending: No, they are not murderers, not Colonel Chepig and not a medical officer Mishkin. They are ordinary people, a couple of gays who wanted to be together and look at Old Sarum; see the Magna Carta ...And the world still has a small chance. At least in the vastness of this black comedy.

For the record, I do like Kharms and Shenderovich writings, and Shenderovich should not be getting in trouble from either side, just genuinely puzzled what is going on here ... --20:23, 3 March 2019 (UTC)