The creators of the play complement Pushkin's unfinished play with a finale written for this play by Vladimir Nabokov. This combination allows us to look at this story from different angles. Ksenia Peretrukhina creates a "magical, disturbing and powerful space." Water pipes, bent red taps, black walls, mirrors, an empty and small swimming pool, a television panel. According to Roman Dolzhansky, this is "a kind of intermediate space, between worlds." He also talks about the play: "This little play by Pushkin conceals many mysteries - 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 the composition of "Mermaid." Many writers and poets have created their own finales to this one-act drama about unhappy love, betrayal and revenge. Already in the 20th century, Vladimir Nabokov, who wrote the most famous version of the ending of the play, could not avoid this temptation. Pushkin himself seemed to suggest that readers and their descendants solve Rusalka each time in their own way, freely fantasize, look for new meanings, relate it to modern times. The young director Teodora Lilyan saw in Pushkin's play not an old fairy tale, but a very modern story played by modern people. What is happiness? - the characters of the play ask themselves and us. At all times, people have answered this question differently - love, family, children, freedom, success. And they always pay with their lives for this choice. Pushkin, of course, also does not know the "correct" answer. He doubts, is sad and reflects together with the viewer, and even - all sorts of unexpected events happen in the theater - he can end up among the characters of the play.