Almost every season has one -- the new phenom. These are things you cannot take too seriously, not necessarily because the phenoms don't deserve the attention but because heaping too much attention on young talent is probably a crime worse than ignoring it.

One of the most prominent phenoms this season has been the director Vasily Senin, a student of Pyotr Fomenko. His name has been on everyone's lips, first for a production he did of Andrei Platonov's story "Fro," then for a production at the Vakhtangov Theater called "Nabokov. Fairytale." Now his staging of Bernard-Marie Koltes' "Roberto Zucco" has opened at the Meyerhold Center.

I am always only too happy to admit my ignorance, so please allow me to confess: For reasons good or bad, I still have not attended either "Nabokov" or "Fro," which plays rarely at the Meyerhold Center. Having seen "Roberto Zucco," however, I have every intention to rectify that iniquity.