The collection of playwright Viktor Slavkin includes the plays “Bad Apartment”, “Frost” and “Picture”. They are described by the author as “one-act comedies.” Small elegant works are united by the theme of the absurdity of loneliness and alienation from the world. In “Bad Apartment,” Slavkin is inspired by the classics of absurdist drama, combining absurdity with everyday, even a little sentimental history. The hero of “Pictures,” an artist, is painfully trying to decide whether he wants to be a Creator or not, and for the hero of “Frost,” “an expert in everything in the world,” his whole life passes unnoticed behind absurd telephone consultations.