Saving face is not an easy task, just like trying to completely change it. About what lies behind the face and what it actually is, Andrei Voznesensky pondered in his play "Take Care of Your Faces."
The story of the play is short and remarkable: in 1970, Yuri Lyubimov staged a performance based on it at the Taganka Theatre. The play was performed three times with great success, after which it was banned, and the play itself disappeared and was never produced again.
Over fifty years later, Leonid Boguslavsky and the Voznesensky Foundation provided the Gogol Center with a preserved copy of this script, and director Savva Saveliev created a new adaptation inspired by it, adding the story of artist Vladislav Mamyshov-Monro.

"Voznesensky's play is a manifesto of freedom. It raises timeless questions about the purpose of a person, their right to be themselves, to create. There is an incredible parallel between that Taganka and our current Gogol Center in the desire to explore these themes. And the legacy of the outstanding artist Vladislav Mamyshov-Monro — a free man with a thousand faces — helps us find answers to these questions."

(Savva Saveliev, director)

General Producer — Leonid Boguslavsky

With the support of the Voznesensky Center