Viktoria Skladchikova is not looking for easy ways - in her new concert 2024, childhood traumas and the search for normal self-esteem become a reason not for pity, but for a cold-blooded inventory of everyday life. Moscow psychologists, Soviet parents, and family dialogues on a minefield are the absolute norm if one is used to surviving, not celebrating.
The sharpest angle of the concert is the difference between survival and "big love", which is measured by stability rather than gifts. The small joys of a big country are not denied here, but no one imposes optimism on the audience: for some people it is just a strategy.
Skladchikova looks at the absurdity of Russian growing up without romance and pathos, but with her trademark cynicism. Perhaps no other way of adapting to reality has been invented yet.
