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Kniga p'es Lyudmily Petrushevskoy — yavlenie redkoe i zna­chitel'noe. Vot uzhe pochti pyat'desyat let ee p'esy suschestvuyut v teatral'nom mire, snachala vlasti SSSR ih zapreschali, no p'esu ved' mozhno postavit' i v komnate. Chto i delali rezhissery. Potom-to p'esy ee poshli po vsey strane i po mnogim stranam mira (krome Afriki, o kotoroy svedeniy net). I dramaturga L. Petrushevskuyu nagradili Gosudarstvennoy premiey, teatral'noy premiey Sta­nislavskogo i premiey "Zolotaya maska", i seychas tol'ko v Moskve idet shest' ee spektakley. Schitaetsya, chto p'esy chitat' trudno. Net, kak v romane, etih slov: "Byl pozdniy vecher iyul'skogo dnya". No ved' i v teatre zritel' pervye pyat'-sem' minut ne znaet, gde vse proishodit i kto zdes' kto. Odnako vskore chitatel' — udivitel'nym obrazom — postepenno i sozdaet dlya sebya dekoracii, i vidit geroev, i stanovitsya zritelem sozdannogo im samim spektaklya. Otkroyte knigu. Teatr Lyudmily Petrushevskoy teper' Vash.