The Square

A play by Marfa Gorvits featuring Maksim Vitorgan

“The Square” is a deeply personal story about friendship, time, and change — taking the audience into the nostalgic atmosphere of a 1990s cabaret show, evoking the “allure of the ‘90s.”

The performance features outstanding actors:
Maksim Vitorgan, Evgeny Kulakov, Semyon Shteinberg / Mikhail Umanets, Ruslan Barabanov.

Old friends reunite in a virtual space to revisit their childhood. In recent years, they’ve found themselves on opposite sides of the barricades.
They reconstruct and attempt to make sense of their shared past. In a world that has dramatically changed, childhood friends, now separated by borders, are forced to find justifications for who they’ve become.

Can human relationships survive when everything is falling apart?
Is reconciliation possible when people view life from fundamentally different angles?

This documentary drama unfolds into a multilayered reflection on how the personal intertwines with the historical, and how the past shapes the present.
What happens on stage is uncompromising and painful — there is no bright future, and no bright present. There is only the past — so dark, that it is within that darkness you begin to notice what truly matters.
And in the shadow of that past, the neighborhood boys play their game of “square” once again…

The cast consists entirely of male actors — all well-known to Georgian audiences.