the TV channel “Russia-Culture” June 22 will be the television version of the play “Instead of epilogue” of the Moscow theatre “Sovremennik”. This production by Alexei Simonov, is dedicated to bitter date of the great Patriotic war.

More than two months of cultural institutions were in isolation, and now cautiously beginning to emerge from a forced quarantine. “Sovremennik” will show to spectators, revealing not the usual theatrical curtain, and television.

“Instead of an epilogue” — statement on the works of Konstantin Simonov. The author of idea — people’s artist of Russia Sergei Garmash, who invited the authors of the son of the playwright Aleksei.

the dress rehearsal has already taken place on 2 June after passing all the participants of the tests for coronavirus. Television shooting of a literary performance will take place on 4 and 5 June.

the text of the performances based on the fragments of the novels “the Living and the dead”, “Soldiers are not born” two stories “Instead of epilogue” and “Candle”, and novel “Sophia L.”. In the history of the Moscow theatre already had six plays about the war, three of them — the prose of Simonov.

the Statement may seem unusual to the viewer as more like a reading and rehearsal. It will participate Darya Belousova, Victoria Tolstoganova, Ivan stebunov, Victoria Romanenko, Vladislav Vetrov. The actors will try to give a modern sound to the great texts and to explain the feelings and emotions of heroes by Konstantin Simonov.

See the TV version of the play “Instead of epilogue” June 22 on the TV channel “Russia-Culture”.