The famous prose writer, author of novels about “The Adventures of a Real Man” and “Moscow Fairy Tales,” Alexander Kabakov, collected plays written in different years of his life in his new book “The Role of Crystal in Family Life.” A fairy tale that grew out of Soviet life - “The Role of Crystal in Family Life”, a phantasmagoria that arose from the madness of current reality - “Signs” and a completely momentary “clinical comedy” called “Intensive Therapy”. All three plays are equally far from everyday realism , their heroes find themselves in completely unthinkable situations, but in the end they get out and continue their march through life.