Alyona Karas, Russkaya gazeta:

At first sight this loud production by Kirill Serebrennikov, which has something in common with a slideshow, moves us back to the atmosphere of the 1970s. The Events of One Day – this is the second title of the production – and the day turns out to be really insane. In its form the performance resembles unconstrained bourgeois entertainment, but it reflects an important feeling that characterizes today's Moscow: the feeling of an unavailing chase for happiness, feverish hedonism and a desperate disillusionment with the pleasures of life. Figaro, performed by Yevgeny Mironov, has a clear theme: he is the wise man who is alone at this tiresome festival of life. The "New Russian" Figaro is an idealist surrounded by successful philistines, a romantic outcast among rapacious pragmatics. It is almost as if Mironov's character stood on the brink of a dangerous and cruel epoch, nevertheless realizing that this is the only life he will ever get, and therefore he should live – here and now. This Figaro is a child of a bourgeois age, who is always ready to swap his role for another one just to earn his living.