Healing (in Russian)

Cherry Orchard Festival presents the Vaba Lava Theatre production HEALING (ИСЦЕЛЕНИЕ). Based on the play by Mikhail Durnenkov Directed by Elmar Senkovs Starring Chulpan Khamatova Yulia Aug Set designer: Reinis Suhanovs Lighting designer: Priidu Adlas Music: Ardo Ran Varres HEALING ("Istseleniye") is a subtle, tense and deeply human story about guilt and forgiveness, about choices and their consequences, and about how sometimes the hardest encounter in life turns out to be the most necessary. Famous actresses Chulpan Khamatova and Yulia Aug share the stage in the Vaba Lava Theatre production of Healing, a subtle and intense contemporary drama by the renowned playwright Mikhail Durnenkov, staged by one of Latvia's leading directors, Elmar Senkovs. After her father's death, Anna (Yulia Aug) takes over the charitable foundation he founded, called Istseleniye (Healing). Along with the foundation, she inherits not only responsibility for other people's lives but also a new life for which she is completely unprepared. At that moment Sonya (Chulpan Khamatova) appears: a mysterious journalist with a difficult past, her own secrets and her own reasons for this meeting. Their conversation begins as a confrontation. But gradually the familiar roles shift, the past forcefully intrudes on the present, and carefully hidden secrets come to light. The closer the two heroines get to the truth, the harder it becomes to tell who is the victim and who is the accuser, and whether there is any single answer at all. What really connects these two women? What does each of them Russian title: Спектакль «ИСЦЕЛЕНИЕ» in Boston (Istseleniye)