The Madness of the Brave. How the Legendary Theater Sovremennik Was Born and Why It Forever Changed the Domestic Stage

In honor of the 70th anniversary of the legendary theater "Sovremennik," a significant book is being released. This is not a dry chronicle, but a living breath of the backstage, a story of the "madness" that united Oleg Efremov, Galina Volchek, Igor Kvasha, Evgeny Evstigneev, and Oleg Tabakov in search of truth on stage in 1956.

Yevgenia Kuznetsova created a portrait of the theater as a living organism—from the first studio manifesto to the present day. This is a tale of how freedom was born behind closed doors of rehearsal halls and how the personal destinies of artists intertwined with the fate of a great country.