DEAR AND BELOVED

Based on the story "Dear and Beloved" by Doug Cooney

DEAR AND BELOVED

an unchildish comedy about children

While you are solving "serious adult problems," your children may already have figured out how to solve them. They are building a corporation. What does it do? A mystery. They will not tell you: you are tired after work, you do not have the energy to play, and that means you are weaker. Children, on the other hand, have more than enough energy. Everyone has their own dream, but in the struggle for a dream, all means are fair. They are rushing to make it in time, before that strange period called "adult life" arrives, when faith in a dream fades, friends are lost, and the question "how is your child doing?" comes up less and less often.

"Dear and Beloved" is a funny and moving story about children. For everyone. But especially for adults.

Directed by: Igor Kulikov

Set design: Yuri Lunik

Costumes: Yulia Shilo

Characters and performers:

Ernie, a minor businessman: Zhenya Leonov

Dusty, an artist fanatic: Gosha Zheglov

Tony, the boy with the big shovel: Vladik Shavlovsky

Basin, a boy in a girl’s skirt, raised by a crowd of brothers: Ksyusa Semyonova

Rick, Basin’s older brother: Nikita Rumyantsev

Betty, a coquettish girl: Danka Shcherbina

Gina, top student, class leader: Aliska Adamson

Jeremy, owner of an iguana: Nikitka Timofeev

Finny and Fanny, the scary sisters: Katka Greenberg, Natashe Buha

Friends and girlfriends (non-speaking roles): Nikoletka Malysheva, Katka Gonokhina, Vladik and Dimka Khapilov

Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes (no intermission)

Recommended age: 12 to infinity