The performance supplement Pushkin's unfinished play with the finale written for this play by Vladimir Nabokov was created by a group of creators. This combination provides us with the opportunity to examine the story from different angles. Ksenia Peretrukhina designed a "magical, disturbing, and overbearing space" that includes water pipes, bent redls, mirrors, an empty and small pool, and a television panel. Roman Dolzhansky described it as "a kind of intermediate space, an in-between world." He also commented on the performance, saying that "This little play by Pushkin holds many my taps, black walsteries - the author did not finish it, did not title it, and did not publish it. To this day, researchers argue about both the genre and composition of 'Mermaids.' Many writers and poets have created their finales to this one-act drama about unhappy love, betrayal, and revenge. In the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov could not resist this temptation and wrote the most famous version of the play's ending. It was as if Pushkin himself offered readers and their descendants the chance to unravel 'Mermaids' in their own way each time, to fantasize freely, to seek new meanings, and to relate it to modern times. The young director Theodora Lilyan saw in Pushkin's play not an old fairy tale, but a very modern story played by modern people. The characters of the play ask themselves and us, "What is happiness?" People have answered this question in different ways throughout history - love, family, children, freedom, success - but they always pay with their lives for their choices. Pushkin, of course, does not know the "right" answer either. He doubts, grieves, and ponders together with the audience, and even - all sorts of unforeseen events happen in the theater - he may be among the actors of the play..