Illusions

You're not alone, old friend. Because we're with you, buddy. We're your loyal friends, Sarra, me, Marta and Markus, we all love you. Believe us. We love you, our dearest Donald. And we'll help you, we'll cure you, we'll call on the best doctors, the best psychotherapists, the best psychiatrists.

Ivan Viripaev with Summer Wasps Sting Us Again in November offers us a drawing-room comedy that veers towards metaphysical tragedy with characters who phone in, are dead with laughter, titillated by alcohol or consumed by worry. In Illusions, four narrators tell the story of two married couples who, at the end of a full life, try to tell each other their truths, confess their joys and their resignations. What's left when all has been lived and all has not been as we imagined?