Lika

Presented for your attention is a radio performance based on Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin’s book “Lika,” with the participation of actors from the “Master-sl’kova” theater. “Lika” is youth—early youth—the hardest kind. Twenty..., under twenty, over twenty… On the one hand, this maximalism, when you want to have everything, including the one that is the only one—or the one you think is the only one. And at the same time, an awful self-doubt: who am I?
“… This ‘eternal quarrel between dream and substance,’ the eternal impossibility of a fullness and wholeness of love—I experienced that winter with all the force of something newly mine, and as if it were a terrible illegality toward me…”.