Video Club: Premiere of an Absurd Comedy

The independent venue Uzel will present the premiere of the play «Video Club» by French playwright Sebastian Thierry on January 31. The performance will mark the debut in contemporary drama for opera director Fyodor Fedotov.

Fedotov, known as a representative of the new generation in opera direction, brings his interest in extreme psychological states to the format of chamber absurdist drama. The plot revolves around a young married couple who discover a hidden webcam in their home. The device becomes a soulless archive, recording and presenting the couple with their own daily life. Each video file turns into evidence, demonstrating petty lies, automatic irritations, unspoken grievances, and rituals of mutual ignoring.

The roles of the spouses will be played by Pavel Pankov and Alina Korol. The actors will portray not just a relationship crisis, but a process of painful reacquaintance through the lens of archival footage never meant for others« eyes. Their dialogue is an assembly of a mosaic from fragments of shared life, where each found detail only entangles the overall picture.

Through an absurd comedy about the loss of privacy, Fedotov poses serious questions to the viewer: are we capable of bearing the truth about ourselves seen from the outside, and can love survive such a merciless retrospective? The production becomes a universal parable about the inevitable gap between our true self and the image we create even for the closest person.

The performance is intended for viewers aged 18 and over.