Communal Apartment on Petrogradka

"My body smells like fried potatoes with onions, my hair smells like fried potatoes with onions, my thoughts smell like fried potatoes with onions..." The communal apartment has repeatedly become the main character and setting in Soviet literary fiction. As it turned out, the phenomenon of communal living did not disappear with the fall of the old regime — it remarkably adapted to new times. Roman Osminkin and Anastasia Vepryeva settled in a communal room in the center of St. Petersburg and took on the role of chroniclers of this amazing archaic reality. They recorded their impressions in a Facebook blog, which grew into this semi-documentary narrative. The authors consciously rejected the detached position of anthropologists for the noble task of describing the communal universe through the prism of their own experience. As a result, a paradoxical artistic fusion of dystopia, literary voyeurism, and psychological drama emerged. Roman Osminkin is a poet, art critic, and performer, the author of the books "Comrade-Thing" and "Comrade-Word"; Anastasia Vepryeva is an artist, curator, and editor of the portal "K. R. A. P. I. V. A." "Communal Apartment on Petrogradka" was first presented as a play in the fringe program of the young dramaturgy festival "Lyubimovka-2019"