Theatre Workshop 2

Alexander Kuprin. “The Elephant”
A small girl is seriously ill; according to the doctor, the illness is “indifference to life.” The only way to cure her is to make her laugh.

Yevgeny Zamyatin. “The Sign”
“… Trouble weighed down Arsyusha: — Why was the old man crying? What was the sign for?”

Vsevolod Garshin. “Four Days”
A story by a wounded officer who spent several days without help under the blazing sun on the battlefield of the Russian-Turkish War of 1877–1878.

Scandinavian epic. “The Poetic Edda”
Songs about gods and heroes, still popular in Iceland, conventionally grouped under the title “The Poetic Edda,” dated to the 13th century…

Kamo-no Temei. “Notes from a Hut”
Hojoki, or “Notes from a Hut,” is one of Japan’s literary-philosophical monuments. Dated 1212. The “Notes” present themselves to the reader as a philosophical reflection on the question: what is life?