Welcome to “I Won’t Do It.”

“Is it history we’re watching, or the present ?

This is not just a play — it’s an invite to experience a pause.. to reflect and listen to your inner voice. Free from everyday race and mundane tasks.

You are invited to walk through the art installations, absorb the visuals, sound, and emotion that fill this space. Then watch a powerful musical performance. And end the evening with a short video anthology.

This play is not an attempt to change society, but to challenge the narratives we’ve taken for granted — and to truly feel the forces that shape our lives.

n the play, we travel to Russia — to a remote Siberian village where a couple, Andrei and Nastena, live a quiet life until Joseph Stalin’s Red Army calls all men to fight in the Second World War. Their ordinary world collapses into fear, intimacy, and conflict.

Before we step into the play, let’s go behind the curtain — into the backdrop of power and propaganda.

After centuries under the Tsars, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution promised freedom — and truly so. It had been a terrible time for humanity, treated as slaves under the banner of loyalty to the king and the church.

In the name of Marxism, the revolution brought freedom disguised as yet another dictatorship — first under Lenin, and then, far worse, under Stalin.

Stalin mastered the art of propaganda, turning theatre itself into a weapon of persuasion. He once said, “The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of a million is a statistic.”

Millions were exiled into the Siberian wilderness. Lands were seized in the name of collective farming and mechanized agriculture. The experiment failed — and famine spread across the Soviet Union.

And yet, when war came again, even those far away in Siberia — people who had nothing to do with Moscow’s politics — were forced to fight.

This is where our play begins. Andrei, a peasant forced to fight in the war, is injured and escapes into the Siberian forest. His wife, Nastena, is caught in the storm of being a deserter’s wife — torn between her husband’s fear of being caught by the ruthless Red Army, the villagers who would never accept a deserter’s child, and the militia who would never forgive a man who refused to fight. Driven by this unbearable tension, the real Nastena in Valentin Rasputin’s story ends her life.

In our play, we choose to imagine a different ending — the freedom to choose. What if a single “No” could transform a mindset fixed by culture and society?

So come, experience this story — inspired by Rasputin’s Live and Remember — and see how the power of one refusal, one act of courage, might still echo in our times.