At first we composed 'Intuition' as a fantasy for movie screens, but over time it turned out that it very accurately and transparently merged with the theatrical stage and found a powerful response in the theater auditorium.Konstantin Khabenskiyalexander Tsypkin made a gift to the artists, giving everyone the main role and a challenge for the director: to put on a performance consisting of monologues. I was worried about how 'Intuition' would look on stage. And he exhaled already at the first reading with the actors.Danila Chashchin, director of 'Intuition'It is extremely important to me that the actors like to play. If an actor is 'infected' with the material, the hero, the situation, it gives him a completely different feeling on stage. All this is in 'Burnt in the USSR'.Grigory Artamonov, director of 'Burnt in the USSR'The stories of Alexander Tsypkin — the author of "Unprincipled Readings" and one of the most popular writers in Russia — are read all over the world by the best Russian actors, and now these stories have predictably begun to turn into performances."Three comrades? What the ballet is silent about" is in the repertoire of the "Comedian's Shelter". "Burnt in the USSR" is played on the small stage of the Gogol Center. "Intuition" is being performed at the Shukshin Drama Theater, and now this play is being staged in the Moscow Sovremennik. "Perfect Che" is being rehearsed at the Ermolova Theater.This collection includes two plays: "Intuition" — monologues of deceased people written together with Konstantin Khabensky, who share their experiences about the mistakes of the last day of their earthly life, and "Burnt in the USSR" (Burned in the USSR) — a tragicomic interweaving of the destinies of classmates born in 1970, collected from famous stories by Tsypkin — the generation that grew up under the ruins of the USSR.