Maksim and his friend Lyokha are growing up in the dark and chaotic world of urban Russia. They are plagued by squalor and brutality, and for Maksim the only escape is to lovingly model figurines out of plasticine.

Plasticine vividly depicts life in contemporary urban Russia. It won The Evening Standard's ‘Most Promising Playwright’ award for its writer, Vassily Sigarev, who has been hailed as the brightest of Russia’s new wave of emerging playwrights.

“An impressive and disturbing howl of a play” The Evening Standard.
“Sigarev offers a bracingly clear-eyed tragicomic vision of the world” The Independent

The Oxford School of Drama trains actors for the profession and recent graduates from its Three Year Course have appeared with The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal National Theatre, Sheffield Crucible, Out of Joint, Tiata Fahodzi, Nuffield Theatre Southampton and Birmingham Repertory Theatre. It was awarded Beacon status by the Minister of State for Education last year and picked by the BBC as one of the top five UK drama schools.

Natalie Abrahami is joint Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, where she most recently directed the UK premiere of The Internationalist by Anne Washburn. Natalie directed Alexandra Wood’s The Eleventh Capital, which won the Royal Court Young Writers Festival 2006. She was awarded the James Menzies-Kitchin Director’s Award in 2005 for her production of Samuel Beckett’s Play and Not I and directed Human Rites by Amélie Nothomb at the Southwark Playhouse’s former venue.