A Man Came to a Woman

The first UK staging of Semyon Zlotnikov's brilliant physical comedy, in collaboration with ALEKO Theatre, St. Petersburg. Read more …

Banned in the USSR and hugely popular in post-Soviet Russia, Zlotnikov's surreal farce satirises the age-old conundrum of how exactly two people of a certain age and an uncertain future meet and get along?

"We're not children any more, I propose we skip several stages. Let's say we've already met, we've got to know each other and we like each other - you like me, I like you, we've paid compliments to each other, we keep on meeting, we keep on meeting and - what happens next?"

The critical consensus

This is an enjoyable, emotionally engaging piece.

Alan Chadwick, STV, 21/03/2013

It the core of the show, there are two beautiful performances from Muireann Kelly and Gary Robson, perfectly cast as two people too old to claim physical perfection or emotional purity; but still capable of dreaming of love, and maybe even of finding it.

(*) Joyce McMillan, 21/03/2013