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Ouranopolis Art Lab was founded in 2006 in Moscow. It brought together ex-student of Vakhrameev director, German Pikus and Historian, Traveller and Genealogist Semionoff Vitaly.
Ouranopolis means 'The Town in the Sky' in Ancient Greek, named from the place in ancient history where an attempt of creating the fair state was made by Greek philosopher Kassandr.
The idea of Ouranopolis was to create, in modern Russian society, a life for artists and directors. Ouranopolis wishes to unite the educational and art-therapy power of theatre with the most progressive technologies.

"Into a Deep Forest"
based on a short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
staged by 52- years old Sergei Vakhrameev (Barnaul, Altai Region, Russia)

There are 7 different accounts of the murder of a samurai whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each account simultaneously clarifies and obscures the investigation of the murder and, finally, brings into question of humanity's ability to perceive and transmit "objective truth". "Into a Deep Forest " is Akira Kurosawa's basis for his award winning movie, Rashomon.

Vakhrameev has another outlook on the story. He unites Akutagawa with his own novel "The Death Treaty" and has created the eighth hero: The Deep Forest.

His play terrifies. The Forest has no faces, It has a lot of faces. It creeps in the scene in the beginning and the end of it and swamps all other heroes with they shallow passions and lies.

Sergei Vakhrameev believes that real theatre is very close to a Shaman's mystical ritual and it dramatically changes the environment as well as the audience.