Poster

28 January At the Pushkin Theatre, the premiere of Agatha Christie's detective story The Mousetrap. The director of the play, Nadezhda Arakcheeva, knows the audience: her play “Blaise” ran at the Pushkin Theater for 18 years. Agatha Christie explained the success of The Mousetrap this way:

28 January

At the Pushkin Theater - the premiere of the play based on the detective story by Agatha Christie "The Mousetrap". The director of the play, Nadezhda Arakcheeva, knows the audience: her play “Blaise” ran at the Pushkin Theater for 18 years. Agatha Christie explained the success of The Mousetrap in this way: "As events unfold, the viewer always wants to know what's next, and it's hard to guess where the plot will turn." In a small family hotel, a married couple receives its first visitors. A snowstorm begins, and the owners of the hotel and their guests are cut off from the whole world. They are destined to spend several days together.

Also January 29th and 30th. Start at 19.00
January 29

The unique children's art studio "Dez No. 5" opened in the largest children's library in the world, the State Children's Library (RSDL) on Kaluga Square, the exhibition "Riddles in the RSCL. Collection of children's contemporary art. The exhibition of children's contemporary art shows thirty visual objects in the space of the library - ideal "rooms", personal spaces, unlimited by the laws of physics and society. From the "Massage Room", massaging each visitor, to the "Hypnosis Room" or "Cloud Bedroom", where it is proposed to lie down on a cloud. The exhibition was conceived in order to maximize the ability of the library to be a window into an imaginary world. The name is explained simply: viewers-visitors of the library will have the opportunity to participate in a walking quest and, with a map in their hands, guess all the objects presented at the exhibition, using their own erudition and imagination. Sweet prizes for the winners.

Quest 29 and 30 January from 12.00

Bookstores Dodo & Jabberwocky Magic Bookroom, Readalcafe and Antibooks celebrate Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's 179th birthday with parlor games . The foyer of the second floor of the 35 mm cinema will become an English salon with a fair of amazing books, music, movies and things "Old England", with games in the best traditions of Victorian England and Wonderland. The Old England Fair includes an exhibition and sale of new and old books of English literature, original and translated, new and old CDs and records with English music (both classical and contemporary), DVDs of new and old English cinema, jewelry , toys, souvenirs, small interior items stylized in the aesthetics of Victorian England and old Europe in general. A costume polonaise is scheduled for 4:00 pm, followed by a Big Festive Tea Party until 6:00 pm. Further - more: comic royal croquet, ink twirling (master class of calligraphy), imprinting (entourage costume and make-up photography with the possibility of subsequent ordering a printed picture), a lecture "England in Moscow" by local historian Alexander Usoltsev, a master class on English Victorian cuisine.

From 14.00 to 22.00. More about the Salon: http://dodo-space.ru

In the Tabula Rasa club - a concert of the St. Petersburg group "S.O.K.". "Eat Both Pieces" - this is how the abbreviation stands for . For 10 years of creative activity, many famous people played in the group, so "S.O.K." has become a kind of higher education institution of the St. Petersburg underground in recent years. The whole composition of Billy's band played in the group, Sergey Kivin (Animal Jazz), Sergey Vyrvich (U-Piter and BZIK), Victor Novikov ("Cartoons"), Dj Shahash, MC Repent. Now the group "S.O.K." mastering his fifth album "ObaKuska". The musicians define their style as rasta-punk. They say: "Take all of yourself, eat both pieces, yin and yang, and be harmonious."

Start at 22.00

January 30

The lecture hall of the Bakhrushin Theater Museum (31/12 Bakhrushina St., Paveletskaya metro station) will host a meeting between the researcher of Nikolai Gogol’s work, writer, winner of the Solzhenitsyn Prize Igor Zolotussky and the author of the book “Chekhov” in the ZhZL series and Doctor of Philology Alevtina Kuzicheva. “Do the two Russian geniuses have points of contact in the problems of the psychology of creativity?” - such a topic interests Chekhov's biographer. “These are such different figures that it is even difficult to connect them in a conversation. Gogol always faces the reader, but this is unusual for Chekhov,” Igor Zolotussky believes.

Start at 16.00. Free admission

February 3rd

In wide distribution - the domestic romantic adventure comedy "On the Hook" by Natalia Uglitskikh, director of the TV novel "The Moscow Saga". The film starred many popular artists. Here are Konstantin Kryukov, and Ekaterina Vilkova, and Maxim Matveev, and Marat Basharov, and Igor Ugolnikov, and Valery Nikolaev, and Andrey Rudensky. A plot from a ladies' magazine: a figure skating coach for a children's school is offended by an unfaithful lover. He left her to marry the sister of the 13th richest oligarch in the country. To take revenge, the girl decides to fall in love with the oligarch. According to the plot, the oligarch is fond of diving, so the actors wear flippers and scuba gear all the way.

Spanish guitarist Alex Garrobe will perform for the first time in Moscow in the concert hall of the Gnessin Academy in Maly Rzhevsky Lane . The program includes music by Spanish composers Eduardo Sainz de la Masa, Juan Ginjuan, Carlos Pedrel, Juan de Manen, Federico Moreno Torroba, Joaquin Turina. "The interpretation of the works is unique, the execution is unsurpassedly elegant," Guitar Player magazine wrote about Garrob. February 2 (Wednesday) at 19.00 Alex Garrobe will give a master class in the auditorium of the Instituto Cervantes. The master class will be held with simultaneous translation. Garrobe works as a guitar teacher at the Higher School of Music of Catalonia and also leads the guitar department at the School of Music of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Registration for the master class (admission is free by appointment): tel. 609-90-55. Concert starts at 19.00