By the invitation of Tchaikovsky Conservatory: “The silent house“ nearby Stanislavsky house | World Theater week

Russian theater website note on the Silent House

In search of a better life…

The couple (Benjamin and Shiva) went to Europe and they are for five years in a refugee camp. Everything is not bad, they are waiting for the child, and a certain Mr. Golbahari somehow helps the spouses in obtaining a residence permit. In their quiet home, nothing happens, but no, it happens. Behind words, sounding in different languages, or not sounding at all, tension grows and a feeling that changes everything gradually appears …

The Saye Theater is a small, dynamic creative group focused on the constant search for new forms of expression and experiment. The founder and director of the theater, Mehdi Mashhur, who is also the author of the pieces represented by the group, refers to the language of the theater as a radical means of identifying human problems. Thin, almost imperceptible to the eye, means of acting and an almost surrealistic set of things depict the problem of people close to each other, set in conditions of a confined space and “looped around” in their boring monotony of alternation of events.

https://www.mkrf.ru/press/culture_life/spektakl_obitel_molchaniya_20190311150602_5c8624fab4b77/