How the play SASHA SHISHIN was created

You hold an amazing book that tells the story of the creation of the play SASHA SHISHIN. It was directed by Garik Sukachev at the theater 'Sovremennik' based on the novel by Alexandra Nikolaenko 'To Kill Bobrykin' (Russian Booker Prize 2017). The main character of the play, Sasha Shishishin, has autism; he does not want to grow up and prefers to live in an imaginary world of childhood. Sasha views the landscape of a Moscow courtyard from the 1980s through bottle glass and imagines the Emerald City, where there is no place for hatred and evil. In this city, joy, naive dreams, and incredible love for Tanya reign, who will stay with Sasha for his entire life. The book immerses you in the behind-the-scenes world and reveals how many incredible artists of various genres, professionals worked on the production, and how much love and labor were invested to bring the story to life. The book will be interesting to anyone who loves theater, good literature, and wants to understand how and who creates magic on stage and behind it.