Alexander Pushkin comes to the city of Shymkent in Kazakhstan to talk about his beloved city of Saint-Petersburg. The poet who spent 6 years of his short life in exile still wanders the universe with a group of characters created by him. They drive a soviet minibus “bukhanka” (the bread) and occasionally give performances full of love and pain for the home they’ve been once exiled from.
Pushkin’s short story Queen of Spades is filled with true Saint-Petersburg: old aristocrats, gambling, heartbreaks and deadly curses. So Pushkin stages this particular short story in Shymkent.
At some point of the performance the actors bring out the things (real objects) that are dear to them and tell their own stories related to these objects.
