MAIN PERFORMANCES OF THE FESTIVAL PERFORMING IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS 0 ★★★★★ Theater named after. Stanislavsky, Fri 28, Sat 29 May, 19.00. Based on the play by E. Gremina. Directed by A. Galibin. Starring S. Ryadinsky, A. Semkin, V. Boldin and others. A new play about Chekhov In Elena Gremina's play, Chekhov is young, healthy and writes stories to earn money. Few people, including his family, realize the scale of his talent.

19 ★★★★ Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, until August 14 Twelve works on canvas and one on paper - the first Rothko exhibition in Moscow, curious for its provenance: last year these things were auctioned off to cover losses caused by their former owner, one of the organizers of the largest financial pyramid in the United States.

Tverskoy Blvd., 8, building 1, entrance through the arch, (495) 203 45 60, 203 33 46 ⑈Arbat Vaudeville (“The Bear” and “The Proposal” by A. Chekhov). Directed by N. Grigorieva. Starring Y. Golubeva, S. Rubeko, V. Vorobyov and others. Thu May 20, 19.00 Oblomov premiere. Episodes (according to I. Goncharov). Directed by N. Grigorieva. Starring A. Ivankov, D. Manokhin, D. Dezhin and others Tue 18, Wed 19 May, 19.00 Inspector. 1835 Scenes based on texts by N. Gogol. Directed by A. Lyubimov.

Venue unknown, 20.00-7.00 “First Open Air” - country dances with freaks, lasers and fireworks, which have been attracting thousands of fans of monotonous aerobic exercise in the fresh air (as well as dark glasses at night) for many years. This year the organizers expect to outdo themselves, not to mention others.

Gaudi Arena, 22.00-6.00 On the occasion of the birthday, the most popular electronic platform among lovers of bottled water is getting a serious reboot. Firstly, the organizers decided to completely abandon the use of the main dance floor for this evening in order to give the party a more private character.

Shop & Bar Denis Simachev, 23.00-6.00 African ethno in a fashionable club sound Accomplices of the sensational ensemble The Very Best, two London guys from Radioclit came up with a special “ghettopop” style for themselves - and for good reason. The duo extremely wittily combines authentic music of the black continent (Congolese soukous and other exotic genres) with English club electronics; The result is such educational globalist dances.

Sun May 30, 0.30, on the small stage Concert version of an excellent performance The hip-hop opera “Cops on Fire” initially seemed like an oxymoron: gangsta rap, read on behalf of the police. Since then, they have done everything in spite of themselves - and everything works out: the performances are completely sold out; the concert version, without scenery and scenography, was also a success - funk, groove and drive, like the young Beastie Boys.

(Exit Through the Gift Shop) 1 ★★★★ Banksy. Documentary. USA-UK, 2010, dubbed A documentary film by Banksy, the most famous British graffiti artist, about how a certain Frenchman is trying to make a documentary about him

0 ★★★★★ Theater company Les Hommes Approximatifs (France) at the theater center “On Strastnoy”, Sun May 24, 14.00, 20.00. Based on the play by J. Racine. Directed by K. Gisla French students play one of the main plays of their classic Racine about the passion of the Greek king for the wife of the defeated Hector - that is, about love in the Trojan ruins.

MAIN EVENTS OF THE PROMOTION WHICH WILL BE HELD IN MOSCOW ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 15-16 0 ★★★★★ “On Solyanka”, 20.00–23.00 Cartoons, photographs, drawings and “The Overcoat” by Yuri Norshtein This refers to the eyes of Volchok, the main character of Yuri Norshtein’s cartoon “The Tale of Tales”, on the occasion of whose 30th anniversary (and the 65th anniversary of the Victory) an exhibition was opened in the gallery on Solyanka.

(Date Night) 176 ★★★★ Shawn Levy. Starring Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, Mila Kunis, Leighton Meester, Steve Carell, Ray Liotta. USA, 2010, dubbed Romantic comedy about the middle class on the warpath. Tired of routine, the spouses arrange a romantic dinner in a restaurant; everything goes wrong.

“Artplay on Yauza”, 20.00-4.00 Clips of indie heroes of recent years from the festival collection Animal Collective, Fleet Foxes, Caribou, Grizzly Bear, Justice, Metronomy, Passion Pit, as well as the premiere of a video by the Moscow group Everything Is Made in China. Everything is shown on plasma screens, which will be placed (as the press release states) “in the most unexpected places of the Artplay design center.”

Mayakovsky Museum, 18.00-2.00 Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and a tribute to Mayakovsky The Mayakovsky Museum shows films by Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Rene Clair (discussions are immediately held to find out what Mayakovsky has to do with it). There is also the play “Chudakov’s Machine” (based on the play “Bathhouse”), poetry readings and a concert of groups that recorded the CD “Live Mayakovsky” - a tribute to Vladimir Vladimirovich with songs based on his poems.

Sun May 30, 17.00, on the big stage Good dance rock from Moscow At the last preparatory party for the festival, these young Muscovites were recognized as unofficial headliners after the fact. Let's get to work: they present their elastic disco-rock convincingly and juicily, broadcasting a completely alien groove to the audience.

Writer and philosopher Alain de Botton wrote a book, The Joys and Sorrows of Work, about accounting, rocket science and cookie making. Lev Danilkin went to visit de Botton - My friend asked you to find out - how do you know everything about her? - What do I know about her, I’m curious? Like any man, I find women very interesting, and I try my best to understand what's going on in their heads. Actually, this is the main task of the writer - to try to imagine what it means to be someone else.