The premiere of the play "Landau's Sun" took place at the Vakhtangov Theater

The premiere of the play about the fate of the outstanding Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate Lev Landau took place at the Vakhtangov Theater. The director of the production called "The Landau Sun," Anatoly Shulev, presented the great physicist as restless, suffering, and misunderstood.

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The authors of the play consider the reason to be a mental illness, which the scientist has suffered from since childhood. Lev Landau's fate reflected the life of the country and the world in the first half of the 20th century. The director characterizes the performance as "flashes of memory." The audience moves through time with the hero, learning the significant events of his life.

"The biggest mystery is our consciousness. Where does it come from if the world is just vibrations of quantum fields? Maybe it is the beginning of everything? And is our life God's imagination? There's nothing more exciting than looking into another person's head. Especially someone as interesting as Lev Landau. To see how seemingly incongruous things come together in it," Shulyev shared.

They worked together on the stage version of the Nobel laureate's biography during rehearsals. The play was born in the analysis of documents, memoirs, letters, speeches by Lev Landau and his contemporaries. That's how the four-hour production appeared.

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