This play takes place during Yom Kippur in a post-Stalinist Russian synagogue, where a Rabbi waits for a Western acting troupe and gets extremely angry about the repression of Jews in the Soviet Union.
Poushkin's and Pouschin's friendship began when they were students in the Tsarskoye Selo Lycee, whose alumni during the era of Alexander I and Nicholas I included government officials, royalists, rebels, romanticists, "Decembrists,"and poets. After the Decembrist revolt of 1825, Pouschin was exiled...
