Famous plays of Russia. For translation from Russian into English

Comedy "Jokes in the Wilderness" by Igor Murenko.

The play was staged in 81 theaters in Russia, Lithuania and the CIS countries (at the time of 2019). Performances of this play have become laureates of festivals in Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Kazakhstan (Ust-Kamenogorsk), Bulgaria (Vratsa), France (Nancy); and:

in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Perm, Kirov, Samara, Tver, Yoshkar-Ola, Ulyanovsk, Murmansk, Barnaul, Omsk, Tomsk, Syzran, Tobolsk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Pskov, Tyumen, Kurgan, Komsomolsk-on -Amure, Kostroma... The last premiere in the Kurgan State Drama Theater.

Игорь Муренко

A member of the Guild of Playwrights of Russia, plays were staged and played in Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Bulgaria and France.

Night, February, blizzard. Resident of rural remote places Sanka (57 years old) decides to play along with relatives who came from the city for his funeral - and fit in a coffin, pretending to be dead. He wants to take the opportunity and see - will his wife grieve much, in the love of which he never made sure in his whole life. At first, everything is going well - he is really taken for a dead man, but all plans fail when a famous artist stops for the night, Russian cinema legend Samson Pods, rather, a person is like two peas in a pod like a screen star, and whom everyone enthusiastically takes for Struchkov and begin to regale, and to which the dead Sanka is even jealous, because everybody forgets about the dead man - such is the magic power of cinema. The dead person disappears from the coffin, the blizzard ends, but it begins ... 

6 males, 4 females

The play can be read here https://sites.google.com/site/pesydlateatraigoramurenko/home/sutki-v-gluhomani