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.T0309200525Director Dave Bond. | |
| 7 Feb 17 to 14 Feb 17 | Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (WCMD)/Raymond Edwards Building/Anthony Hopkins Centre, Cardiff :: V01146970443 listing details L1726638202 |
T01875276544Presented byThe University of Northampton. Director Cressida Brown. | |
| 13 Mar 15 to 15 Mar 15 | Royal & Derngate, Northampton :: V449 listing details L0207714469 |
T40928658Company The Actor Works Company. Director Daniel Brennan. Lighting Pete Maxey. Sound Pete Maxey. Costume Kim Smith. Musical Director Nick Edwards. Performer Darren Latham (Semyon). Performer Zeynep Sandi (Masha). Performer Elaine Harry (Serafima). Performer Gosia Roska (Margarita). Performer Jonathon Marx (Alexander). Performer Mark Lisseman (Yegor). Performer Phil Hatchard (Aristarkh). Performer Karina Knapinska (Kleopatra). Performer David Hemsted (Yelpidy). Performer Roger Carvalho (Viktor). Performer Anjali Bhat (Beggars / Undertaker). Performer Jon Bradshaw (Beggars / Undertaker). Performer Hannah Cheetham (Beggars / Undertaker). Performer Anita Karklina (Beggars / Undertaker). | |
| 21 Oct 14 to 8 Nov 14 | Jack Studio Theatre (previously Brockley Studio Theatre), Outer London :: V299 listing details L0413958283 |
T152464081Company Tower Theatre Company. Director Robert Irvine. | |
| 30 Jul 13 to 3 Aug 13 | Bridewell Theatre, Inner London :: V171 listing details L01997199344 |
T091116584Company Katalyst. | |
| 10 Jun 09 to 13 Jun 09 | The Bull Theatre, Barnet :: V394446196 listing details L0411860845 |
T014875519Erdman'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 |
