The opening night for the performance “The Cold Heart” based on the tale by Wilhelm Hauff took place on the big stage of the Saratov Academic Kiselev Youth Theatre on April 28, 2006.
How heartless and cruel people in power could be, how they could play  with our lives… They pamper their vanity while people are suffering…

The main character of the performance, Peter Munk, a charcoal-burner, has to make a difficult choice. The treacherous tempter Michael promises the young man fabulous treasures just  in exchange for… his living and tender heart. Or else… And Peter agrees to sell his heart for a purse full of gold pieces.

Everyday he hears how his mother is tapping with her crook calling upon her son… How his loving Liza is crying, how everyday and every hour his best friend Jacob is tortured…No one could touch a cold stone heart. It doesn’t know pain and grief. Neither could it feel joy. It isn’t able to love. Wealth doesn’t bring happiness. Peter is no longer a careless joyful person we knew. In the end he decides to get his living heart back. And then…
Actors:

The Keeper	Rotachkov Alexey Gennadievich
Michael	Emelyanov Valery Nikolayevich
Peter Munk	Gudim Andrey Victorovitch
Mistress Barbara Munk	Klyukina (Kochneva) Lubov Nikolayevna Tarter (Tsikhan) Tamara Karlovna
Jacob	Shchedrin Anton Yurievich
Liza	Chernysheva Tatyana Yurievna Sosedova Anna Vyacheslavovna
Rose	Voloshina Zhanna Vasilievna Krasnova Elena Alexeyevna
Willy, a king of dance	Krivega Alexey Vladimirovich
Long Konrad	Karabanov Alexey Nikolayevich
Fat Ezekiel	Skachkov Dmitry Valentinovich
The Innkeeper	Kuzin Artem Evgenievich
The Judge	Bykov Andrey Valentinovich