In front of you is perhaps the most famous of the plays of the Yekaterinburg playwrights of the Presnyakov brothers. The main character of the play, Valya, having graduated from university, gets a job in the police, where he portrays crime victims during investigative experiments... World premiere of the play " Playing a Victim took place at the Edinburgh Festival 2003 in a co-production of the Royal Court Theater and Told by Idiot (directed by Richard Wilson); in Russia, “Playing the Victim” was staged by Kirill Serebrennikov at the Moscow Art Theater. A. P. Chekhov in 2003. Currently, the play has gained almost worldwide fame, and the film of the same name by Kirill Serebrennikov, based on it, became a real cinematic sensation in 2006.