Schukinsk School made Daniil love the spectacular shows. His Sebastian in The Twelfth Night seemed to naturally belong to the clown carnival directed by Mark Wyle.

Suddenly Daniil has quit the Theater n.a. Gogol and vanished form the theatrical life for a year and a half, making occasional appearances in The Twelfth Night only. Those were hard times, when Daniil felt lost again, going farther into deep depression as the phone has kept silent and new offers have dried out.

    ‘I don’t really remember what I was occupied with those days: reading the books, pondering over something…  Such gloomy thoughts pull a person into kind of comatose. I guess it was my state of unemployed to blame. I was fighting the depression hard and looking for the better times. On the other hand, that period helped me understand the danger of myself merely getting by while others had their bright moments. ‘

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