FRO

Song of Farewell
Based on Andrey Platonov’s short story
Krasnodar Academic Drama Theatre named after M. Gorky
Directed by Philip Gurevich

Having seen off her dearly beloved husband Fyodor to his service in the Far East, young Efrosinya begins to grieve right there on the platform: what if their love fades with the distance?
Surrounded by people who have decisively shaped their fate through their calling, Fro’s soul is filled with the labor of emotions. A struggle rages within her for the sense of the living and multifaceted: passion, longing, pity, tenderness…
Fro tries to bury her anxiety deep, wielding a shovel by the railway tracks. She attempts to dispel her melancholy by dancing in the club after her shift. She unleashes her impatience, peeking into every letter as she takes a job as a postwoman. But no word from her husband arrives. «I’m dying!»-Fro telegraphs her cry to Fyodor and waits…