MOSCOW, February 3 – RIA Novosti. On Friday, February 3, the play “Y”, adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s mystical story “Viy”, will have its premiere at the Yermolova Theatre. should from the institution’s poster.

The production director is Denis Paramonov.

“Like others, I have had an impression of this work since childhood. It is associated with literature lessons, movies. Then it was perceived as a mystical story about ghouls, vampires, and Gogol’s Viy was often written as dwarfs,” says the director.

During his years at the Institute, he reread the story and looked at it differently.

“It seemed to me that this is, first of all, a story about a man and a woman. And the flight that night, when Khoma first met the lady in the barn, is described by Gogol as something and not something terrible. beautiful.” Her play is about love.

In addition to “Viya”, other texts by Gogol are used in the performance.

The classic story was published in 1835. Included in the collection “Mirgorod”. The piece tells of Home Brutus, a theology student who had three nights to bury a lady who turned out to be a witch.