Dying for It

Archive Listings for Dying for It

T091116584 (THEBULL09) Company Katalyst.
10 Jun 09 to 13 Jun 09	The Bull Theatre, Barnet :: V394446196 listing details L0411860845
T014875519 (ALMEIDA07) Erdman's The Suicide, written in 1928 five years after Stalin took control of the Soviet Union's Communist Party, was an early example of an artistic work coming under the increasingly unforgiving gaze of the Stalinist censor. The play was banned in 1932, before it had even been performed in public - it was not seen in the Soviet Union until 1982.Corporate Sponsor Coutts and Co. Producer Almeida Theatre. Director Anna Mackmin. Design Lez Brotherston. Lighting Neil Austin. Sound John Leonard. Choreographer Scarlett Mackmin. Performer Tom Brooke (Semyon). Performer Dominic Charles-Rouse (Stepan Vasilievich). Performer Susan Brown (Serafima). Performer Charlie Condou (Viktor). Performer Michelle Dockery (Kleopatra). Performer Barnaby Kay (Alexander). Performer Paul Rider (Yegor). Performer Tony Rohr (Father Yelpidy). Performer Sophie Stanton (Margarita). Performer Ronan Vibert (Aristarch). Performer Liz White (Masha). Performer Gil Cohen-Alloro. Performer Stephen Warbeck.
8 Mar 07 to 28 Apr 07	Almeida Theatre, West End :: V166 listing details L02076559653

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Play :: Adapted from Nikolai Erdman's satirical comedy The Suicide. Dying For It centres on Semyon, unemployed, living in the hallway and watching his wife Masha slave all the hours God sends. When his last hope to earn a crust and gain some self-respect disappears, he decides to take his own life. Word gets out of his intention and he finds himself inundated with visitors begging him to die on their behalf. On the night he is to shoot himself they hold a party, at which point events spiral to a glorious climax.

Author

Moira Buffini