PLAY “TWO NAKED MEN”

PLAY “TWO NAKED MEN”

A gray morning. Successful Parisian lawyer Alain Kramer wakes up naked in his bedroom. He turns his head and, instead of his wife, finds his assistant—also naked. Neither can understand what’s going on—is this a rivalry? Voodoo?

Unexpectedly, Kramer’s wife appears. They have to come up with the most improbable explanation to save their marriage. Life turns upside down.

In the play, which became a sensation at the Madeleine Theater in Paris, the traits of a vaudeville and comedy are combined with the theater of the absurd. Homerically funny dialogues, jokes on the edge of decency, sometimes crossing the line, but with surprisingly serious themes. Despite the “raunchiness,” the play is not about homosexuality, but about the illusion of truth.

Critics call the plays of Sebastian Thierry “smart boulevard theater” and compare them to the works of Ionesco, Beckett, and Adamov. The play “Two Naked Men” was nominated for the Molière Award in 2015.

A star-studded performance.

Only stars perform.

Just as you like it, troublemakers.

Cast: Oleksiy Vertynskyi, Lyudmila Smorodina, Artem Yemtsev, Ksenia Vertynska, Maria Havrylyuk, and Manya Korohodska

Director: Olha Havrylyuk