It's not often we get to talk to Russian thespians. It's even more rare we get to talk to Russian thespians about sofas. But now we've got both in the theatre production Sofaman, a collaboration between The Necessary Stage and Russian group Theatre KnAM. TNS director Alvin Tan was kind enough to share a couple of pictures he took of their rehearsal stint in Russia in June. Here's one of the gang in front of a coconut tree. A fake one.