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Heiner Müller "Cement" Novosibirsk, The Old House Theatre, 2020 Gleb Chumalov comes back from The Civil War as if he had been to the land of the dead. He finds his house in ruins, his wife Dasha doesn’t recognize him, nor does he recognize her, and their daughter Niurka is starving in the orphanage. Gleb wants to restore the mechanical body of the cement plant at whatever cost, but to do this, he has to learn to be a machine himself. Heiner Müller’s play “Cement” is based on the eponymous novel of Fyodor Gladkov. In his unique style, Müller condenses the plot into just a few scenes, linking them them to the myths of Odysseus, Achilles, Prometheus, Sisyphus and other Ancient Greek heroes.