Director Evgenia Safonova has accomplished a lot: she has organized the space (in such a way that the sparsity of means looks like a technique) and has found a precise mode of existence for the actors. Being able to catch and reproduce Maslowska’s incredible drive, Safonova, first of all, knows what she is doing and, secondly and importantly, doesn’t do anything unnecessary.

Lilia Shitenburg, City 812

In the design of the production there is some kind of stylish metallic precision. The picture of a night road projected onto the far wall hypnotizes, maintaining an illusion of movement, evoking the impulse to reach for the safety belt on the audience chair. Safonova picks up speed at the very beginning, during the very first moments. She picks up speed quite literally, at the expense of the actors’ speech rate.

Anastasia Mordvinova, OKOLO

The entire mode of the leading couple’s existence is built on contrast: the verbal diarrhea of Parcha and the quietness of detached Dzina (Jina), the pink-haired doll-like girl with a fake baby bump. Kirill Varaksa keeps his character on the peak of hysteria for such a long time that an audience member could have been exhausted by tension, if not for the refined acting technique and strict framework, set by the director.

Evgenia Tropp, St. Petersburg Theatre Magazine

The work with text is highly precise: choosing absurdist comedy as her starting point, the director – with every plot turn – powerfully and tightly nails “the coffin lid” of the characters, intensifying the state of existential horror.

Elena Strogaleva, St. Petersburg Theatre Magazine

The ascetic visual design (an office chair and a video projector) allow the characters to move instantly wherever they want, remaining in the dark and eerily empty space of the basement stage. At the same time, they are persistently followed by the night highway. They seem to be trying to find themselves during their journey. Reaching the end of the road, taking off their masquerade costumes and throwing off their masks, the characters suddenly become frighteningly real.

Darya Leontyeva, BUMAGA