May 14, 2026
Call Nina
Based on Kir Bulychev’s short story “May I Ask for Nina?”
“Call Nina” is a story about an accidental telephone call that connects two times: peaceful May 2005 and wartime Moscow in December 1942. Aziz wants to congratulate his acquaintance Nina on the holiday, but instead he hears the voice of another Nina — a sixteen-year-old girl from the past, living in the cold, darkness, and hunger of wartime.
This conversation begins as a mistake, but gradually becomes a meeting of two human souls — an adult who knows how the war ended, and a girl who still has to live through fear, hope, and the long wait for Victory. There is no loud heroism in this play; what matters more is quiet memory, simple compassion, a piece of bread, a mother’s silence, and words of support spoken at the right moment.
“Call Nina” is a performance about the fact that the past never disappears without a trace. It lives in family stories, chance coincidences, old letters, and in our ability to remember another person’s pain as our own. This is a luminous and touching story about memory, kindness, and hope that can pass through time.
Photos from the performance
