The premiere of the diving performance "The Little Prince" will take place on September 17 and 18 at the Smirnov House.

The premiere of the unique immersion performance "The Little Prince" will take place on September 17 and 18 at the Smirnov House on Tverskaya Boulevard. Nina Chusova, a well—known theater director and teacher, will direct the production as part of the Lumisfera project. Her productions have been repeatedly nominated for the Golden Mask and other theater awards, as well as participated in international festivals.

According to the director's idea, the mansion will give every viewer the opportunity to get to know their real selves. The story begins on the way to the auditorium — the guests will have to pass through a corridor of rooms where they will have an allegorical encounter with the characters of the "Little Prince" — human archetypes and their own hypostases. This is an opportunity to immerse yourself in yourself, throw off the masks and awaken your inner child. The creators claim: This is not another reading of the work of Antoine de Saint-Exupery — this is a story about each of us.

"While working on the play, I realized that a pilot, a boy, and a person from the audience are one and the same thing. We all experience inner collapse at a certain age. And we all need to return to the inner child — to ourselves, to this purity that each of us has," explains director Nina Chusova.

"This performance is not a story, but a meeting. There is already everything inside each of us — it's just not visible in the dark. That's the whole Lumisfera thing: first turn on the light, and then suddenly realize that you see not only further, not only more, not only others, but also yourself. And among all that, there's that look, that voice you haven't heard in a long time. Your own Little Prince, the most sincere, the most honest. We dream that the audience will return after the performance not only with emotion, but with this very quiet, personal "I remember you" addressed to themselves," adds Artem Mironov, producer of Lumisfera.