LYUBOV SHTILIANOVA   

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Plays by Lyubov Shtilianova

LYUBOV SHTILIANOVA

Overcoat, The

1st Produced:

The Pit, Barbican, London, EUR >>>

2000

Company:

Credo Theatre, Bulgaria in BITE 2000 season

1st Published:

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Music:

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doollee no

#57935

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

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Notes:

after the story by Nikolai Gogol; conceived by Nina Diimitrova, Vassil Vassilev-Zuek and Svetozar Gagov

Synopsis:

In 1842 Gogol had an insane vision of a charisma-free bureaucrat who discovered that a new overcoat more than made up for his lack of personality. It caused a frisson in literary salons because of his groundbreaking use of words as building blocks for this disconcertingly absurd and anti-bureaucratic world. Now, more than 150 years later, the Bulgarian company Credo Theatre has taken similar liberties with its theatrical language to bring his spirit back. Imagine, if you will, a tall, thin man with false eyebrows and a moustache that make him look like a cross between Groucho Marx and a walrus. His companion in absurdity is equally blessed in the moustache and eyebrow department, but this moustache is of such horizontal rigidity that it could double as a kebab stick. Watching their clowning is like watching a power relationship unfold between two children at play. Through deliberate use of the child's emotional register, they slip more easily into a world of fantasy and game playing which informs their quirky attempts to recreate Gogol's St Petersburg through puppetry.
Rachel Halliburton, Evening Standard

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