This play opens just as the title promises. Two narrators tell us the story of an elderly woman (Giulia Innocenti) from old Russia who is stranded in the new Moscow of 2018 that is still high from hosting the World Cup.
She is sold a loan with an extortionate interest rate by a callow, morally slippery bank manager (Sam Newton), even though it is intimated that she is in the early throes of dementia and can’t keep hold of the manager’s name. That action spirals into a tragicomedy, of sorts, narrated by characters-cum-storytellers. They restart again and again, it seems, and the drama appears beguilingly simple but gathers Matryoshka doll-like layers.
