Mother's Heart
Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre
Director – Andrey Moguchy
Premiered on April 24th, 2022
Duration: 4 hours 20 minutes with two intermissions
The Russian National Theatre Award "Golden Mask — 2023":
Drama Theatre Special Jury Award to the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre "for the performance "Mother's heart" and for creating the image of a Russian woman portrayed by the actress Nina Usatova"
This year, the Voronezh audience of the Platonov Arts Festival will be able to see the long-awaited performance "Mother's Heart". In the centre of the plot is the story of Avdotya Gromova, who travels across the country on an old motorcycle to save her son from prison. The road ahead is long, Avdotya will meet many people along the way, and everyone has their own destiny. Her mother's heart, big and strong, is ready to help everyone. But will she save her son?
The script for the performance is based on the stories by Vasily Shukshin: "Mother's Heart", "In Autumn", "An Accidental Shot", "Stalled", "How a Man took a Wolf, a Goat and a Cabbage Across the River", "Distant Winter Nights", "In the Cemetery", "The Stray", texts by Nicholas and Helena Roerich and poems by Kozma Prutkov.
