“All Roads Lead to the Kurski Station" directed and adapted by Emil Varda
Starring: Elliot Morse, Mia Vallet, & Rivers Duggan
May 10- June 24 2018 at The East Village Playhouse (340 E 6 st)
Suppose you are a creator expecting that one-day Muses or friendly Goddesses will come to help you create a masterpiece. Now suppose that something terrible happens, and instead of Muses inspiring Your mind and spirit, demons arrive - Erinyes. Muses are from Olympus, from Heaven, while Erinyes are from underworld, from Hades. Erinyes are female deities of vengeance. They want to take revenge on you just because you want to be creator, a poet, writer, musician, director or actor.
That is what happened to Emil Varda. Thirty years ago, he was an actor playing a character named Vienya onstage, who was funny and tragic embodiment of the Russian drunk from the poetical prose poem by V. Yerofieyev. At that time Muses were around Varda all the time, but then they disappeared.
After three decades, Goddesses returned to Varda and offered him fresh inspiration. He realized that they are not Muses anymore, but Erinyes offering pain, difficulties, parody (often of himself), and sad memories. It is very possible they want to turn his Vienya into a tragic comedian - in revenge. (...)
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