Staged Reading of The Unexpected Man, April 1, 2023 South Oxford Space Brooklyn, NY

"Unlike in Chekhov’s dramas (which the author himself subtitled “comedies”), where the cherry orchard has been cut down and the seagull has been shot, the “Flawed Choir” has an almost happy ending … the actors mime being a choir, silently, without words. It is up to us to find those words."

Vassili Schedrin, Sept '22

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Vassili Schedrin, June '22

"Critics have called this work philosophical, intellectual, and absurd. Our audiences agreed but only to an extent. What attracted them was that the character’s monologues are rife with topics that are real and down to earth. They express life’s inevitability and for most of us who are true readers, we can relate to these life experiences. It is a piece created for those who live, read, and think… This is exactly why we chose it. Thank you, dear audience, for being the right ones for it. Thank you, to great New York actors Roman Freud and Yelena Shmulenson, and director Slava Stepnov for bringing this play to life."

"For several years now, I have been following the work of STEPS, a multilingual theater company of Russian origin in America, and I consider it one of the most prominent Russian theater groups outside Russia. At any rate, it is a company that creates serious art with profound meaning, theater that confidently exists in a “different time” and occupies a place that “did not go away,” as its own place and home."

Книга «Буковки, не провалившиеся в щель..." с иллюстрациями Виктора Пушкина объединяет эссе, фрагменты из интервью и две пьесы. Драматическая фантазия Славы Степнова и Романа Фрейда «Спросите Иосифа» в 2015 году была напечатана в журнале «Современная драматургия» (Россия). Невесёлая комедия "Flawed Choir" ("Жопкин хор") увидит свет впервые.

«Буковки, не провалившиеся в щель…» книга Славы Степнова