"LIMBO" Director and Author of stage adaptation Ilja Moščickij

Performance

Premiere – 4, 5 September 2026

Performed in Russian with Lithuanian surtitles

Creative Team:

Director and Author of Stage Adaptation – Ilya Moshchitsky

Scenographer and Costume Designer – Natalya Chernova

Composer – Dmytro Saratsky

Stage Director’s Assistant – Tatyana Belonovskaya

Production Manager – Aleksandra Šalkinė

Cast:

Igoris Abramovičius, Artūras Aleksejevas, Nikolaj Antonov, Jelena Bogdanovič, Vladimir Dorondov, Mila Ivanova, Viktoriia Aliukone-Mirošnikova, Alisia Nesterova, Vera Stasenia

LIMBO – the first circle of Hell in The Divine Comedy.

LIMBO – a term often used to describe a state following divorce, the death of a loved one, emigration, war, or job loss.

LIMBO – a place without suffering, but also without hope. In the first part of The Divine Comedy, Dante places Homer, Horace, Ovid, Socrates, Plato, and Virgil there.

LIMBO – a dance popular in the West Indies in which dancers must bend backwards, lower and lower.

LIMBO – a British anti-submarine mortar.

To be in LIMBO. In English, the expression refers to being left hanging, being in a state of uncertainty, waiting for a decision, or not knowing what will happen next.

LIMBO – a word frequently used in texts about refugees, transit camps, the wait for asylum, and deportations.

LIMBO – a programming language for the Inferno operating system, created by UNIX developers.

LIMBO – a video game developed by the Danish studio Playdead.

LIMBO – a song by Valery Meladze from the album Sera.

Ilya Moshchitsky is a theatre director and curator. His artistic practice focuses on finding new forms of interaction between audience, performer and space. He sees theatre as a place of exploration and shared experience. Since March 2022, he has lived and worked in Yerevan. He leads the independent theatre company Chronotope, founded in 2018, and is one of the curators of Chronofest, an international festival of contemporary theatre and performance. The company creates original theatre projects, while the festival brings together independent artists and theatre collectives from different countries. His best-known works include The Trial of John Demjanjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret, The Book of Disquiet, Michael Craig-Martin’s Oak Tree and To Forget.

Igoris Abramovičius, Artūras Aleksejevas, Nikolaj Antonov, Jelena Bogdanovič, Vladimir Dorondov, Mila Ivanova, Viktoriia Aliukone-Mirošnikova, Alisija Nesterova, Vera Stasenia

LIMBO – the first circle of Hell in The Divine Comedy.

LIMBO – a term often used to describe a state following divorce, the death of a loved one, emigration, war, or job loss.

LIMBO – a place without suffering, but also without hope. In the first part of The Divine Comedy, Dante places Homer, Horace, Ovid, Socrates, Plato, and Virgil there.

LIMBO – a dance popular in the West Indies in which dancers must bend backwards, lower and lower.

LIMBO – a British anti-submarine mortar.

To be in LIMBO. In English, the expression refers to being left hanging, being in a state of uncertainty, waiting for a decision, or not knowing what will happen next.

LIMBO – a word frequently used in texts about refugees, transit camps, the wait for asylum, and deportations.

LIMBO – a programming language for the Inferno operating system, created by UNIX developers.

LIMBO – a video game developed by the Danish studio Playdead.

LIMBO – a song by Valery Meladze from the album Sera.

Ilya Moshchitsky is a theatre director and curator. His artistic practice focuses on finding new forms of interaction between audience, performer and space. He sees theatre as a place of exploration and shared experience. Since March 2022, he has lived and worked in Yerevan. He leads the independent theatre company Chronotope, founded in 2018, and is one of the curators of Chronofest, an international festival of contemporary theatre and performance. The company creates original theatre projects, while the festival brings together independent artists and theatre collectives from different countries. His best-known works include The Trial of John Demjanjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret, The Book of Disquiet, Michael Craig-Martin’s Oak Tree and To Forget.