Finist the Clear Falcon

A collection of dramatic texts is always an occasion for summing up the intermediate results of an author''s creative path. These days there are more such occasions, and not all of them are joyful. By the time this collection comes out, playwright Svetlana Petriychuk is under investigation for one of the most absurd processes of our time - the so-called "new theatrical case. Svetlana and the director Zhenya Berkovich are accused of justifying terrorism for staging the play "Finist the Clear Falcon.The play "Tuaregs," which gave its name to the collection, is a program work by Svitlana Petriichuk. The play uses the method of combining the incompatible. The life of women who rebelled against the male state in the village of Otrub is intertwined with the legends and tales of the Tuareg tribe, who came to the idea of matriarchy in times immemorial.