Lilya Averina has a knack for spotting things that are usually only talked about in the kitchen, when the rest of us have already dispersed. In the concert "Painfully Beautiful", she delicately dissects the ridiculous techniques women use to try to resist age, and the usual male apathy - the same treatment with vodka and demonstrative disregard for themselves.
Instead of pathos - ironic fatigue, a recognizable mirror of family and age crises. Averina doesn't make life better, but explains exactly why everything is both normal (and funny) in its imperfection.
