Pathetic play-laboratory "Gobo. Digital glossary" is a collection of installations and mini-performances in one piece.

Organized in a clear structure, they create their depiction of Gobo (an un-existing Hero, similar to Beckett's Godot, although the authors did not mean an obvious connection) in such a way that the audience sees him as he his - naive and wounded, pathetic and desperate, sentimental and impulsive. In order to see Gobo clearly, we must look at it through tediously selected objects.

These objects are permitted to speak ironically about Gobo and are the classical example of nothing (non-material things). So they slowly slide the metallic post, they tinkle inside the washing machine and proudly call themselves the "Gobo's Line".

For the actors, charmed by this lack of modesty, nothing remains the same. They start playing following the rules of objects. Thus, the entire construction of Glossary is converted into a simulacrum: the copy which does not have an original.

AKHE was created in 1989 by Maksim Isaev, Pavel Semtchenko and Vadim Vasiliev, all members of Boris Ponizovski's glorious "Yes - No" company.

Working in St. Petersburg, at the famous Pushkinskaja-10 – the independent culture centre of the beginning of the 90's - the group announced their theatre as independent, style and form wise, and began their activity focusing on performance, cinema and the fine arts. This brought them fame and fortune in St. Petersburg and within the Muscovite artistic community.

In the mid-90's, Vadim Vasiliev leaves the group. From that moment on, Maksim Isaev and Pavel Semtchenko considered themselves as a theatre group, shaped for the regular stage (in classical terms), and started inviting professional actors to join their performances. Since then, the group regularly takes part in theatre festivals, both in Russia and abroad. The members of the group have participated in different theatre projects with other Russian theatre companies (Slava Polunin, Derevo, Formal Theatre) as well as foreign ones (Lantaaren (Netherlands), Toihaus (Austria), Project Teatr and Kampnagel (Germany) Theatre de Poudrier (Switzerland).

In 1999, Yana Tumina (actress in Akhe's first films) returns to the group. In 2000 and 2001, Vadim Gololobov and Andrey Sizintsev (former members of Derevo) join them and since then the company has a fixed structure and is called "AKHE" – Russian Engineering Theatre.