Silence on a given subject

Describing this performance is quite simple. For 60 minutes, the audience in the hall and the performer on stage will remain silent. This is by no means a meditation. Meditation belongs elsewhere, not in the theatre. And we won’t promise that some profound, hidden meanings will be revealed through silence. We’re not idiots. And we’re not charlatans. Calling something like this a “novelty” in 2025 feels absurd. This is a performance. An entertainment event. A public service. We offer the public a rare and highly sought-after commodity — silence.

We invite you to collectively remain silent for an hour on a topic that will be announced right before the performance begins. Of course, you’re free to spend that hour glued to your phone — but what’s the point in that? Since we’ve decided to call this a performance, it naturally requires an actor. Or, in this case, an actress. The role will be performed by Ekaterina Kramarenko. The task before her is hard to overstate. We ourselves are curious to see how Ekaterina will manage to portray reflection on a topic without uttering a word — and without resorting to pantomime.

In short, come and be silent with us. Who knows — maybe we’ll think of something wordless together.

Author of the project: Vsevolod Lisovsky

The performance was created by Vsevolod Lisovsky in 2015 at Teatr.doc in Moscow. It has been performed for over ten years in Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan) and internationally (Yerevan, Berlin, Riga).