Flames

In twelve independent scenes, Russian playwright Mikhail Durnenkov depicts a world of anxiety and crisis preparedness, of pawing tears and whispered words, of people succumbing to real or perceived threats. In twelve independent scenes, Russian playwright Mikhail Durnenkov depicts a world of anxiety and crisis preparedness, of pawing tears and whispered words, of people succumbing to real or perceived threats. In a motley web of stories where the feeling of insecurity runs through each syllable, Durnenkov's text serves as a projection surface for the fears and thoughts of our time. What happens when the world is turned upside down and the impossible becomes possible, when states of emergency become everyday and everything that was foreign and absurd is normal? —Jasper Redhat