That Very Day

That Very Day is a tragicomedy based on the acclaimed play by Yaroslava Pulinovich, which, like a mirror, reflects the realities of modern society with irony and sharp humour.
This is the story of one fateful night in the life of a young woman named Maria, a night when she is determined to reach her goal, no matter what it takes.

About the Director: Vladimir Drozdetsky graduated from the T. Zhurgenov State Academy of Arts in Almaty in 1992. Since 2004, he has been working at the Temirtau Theatre for Children and Youth. From 1992 to 2014, he served as the artistic director of the Youth Theatre Studio in Temirtau.

As a stage director, Drozdetsky has produced 17 plays, many of which were successfully presented at regional, national, and international festivals, earning numerous awards and honours.

About the Playwright: Yaroslava Pulinovich was born in 1987 in Omsk to a family of journalists. In 2009, she graduated from the Yekaterinburg Theatre Institute under the mentorship of Nikolai Kolyada. Her plays are performed not only across Russia - in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Perm, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, and beyond - but also internationally, in the UK, USA, Poland, Estonia, and Ukraine. She is the recipient of multiple prestigious awards, including Voice of a Generation, Debut, Eurasia, New Play (as part of the Golden Mask festival), Arlekin, Textura, and Duty. Honour. Dignity, among others. According to The Moscow Times, her play Natasha’s Dream ranks among the ten best Russian plays of the 21st century. Her screenwriting work has also received high acclaim: How to Catch a Shoplifter (co-written with Pavel Kazantsev) won the Bronze Taiga prize at the Spirit of Fire film festival. I Won’t Come Back received a special mention at the Tribeca Film Festival (New York, 2014), the Grand Prix at Film by the Sea (Vlissingen, Netherlands, 2014), and the President of Belarus Award for Humanism and Spirituality in Cinema at the Listapad Festival (Minsk, 2014). The same film’s screenplay received the Valery Frid Prize for Best Screenplay at the Stalker Human Rights Film Festival (Moscow, 2014). Pulinovich currently lives and works in Yekaterinburg.

Cast:

Maria - Evgeniya Teslya-Yartseva
Alyosha - Nikita Kolesov
Maria’s Mother - Lyudmila Gulueva
Aunt Lida - Natalya Snegiryova
Anzhelika - Anastasia Agafonova
Andrey - Nurlan Ibraev
Deputy - Valentin Bukhonov
Grigory - Yuri Blinov
Igor - Aidar Mukashev
Matvey - Roman Guzhel
Rostislav - Vladimir Khomutov
Brunette - Alexandra Borisova, Margarita Valeeva
Blonde - Ekaterina Orishchenko
Bartender Girl - Olga Zveryeva
Orthodox Activists - Natalya Snegiryova, Olga Zveryeva, Ekaterina Orishchenko, Alexandra Borisova, Margarita Valeeva
Zhenya, Stalin - Nurlan Ibraev
Vanya, Christ - Yuri Blinov
Security Guard - Valentin Bukhonov
Street Toughs - Yuri Blinov, Valentin Bukhonov