Details

The revolution turns the Guliachins' world upside down. First they must track down members of the working class to pose as relatives. And there's 'Copenhagen Twilight' to replace with a portrait of Karl Marx. But in a bizarre case of mistaken identity, the cook is confused for the Grand Duchess Anastasia or a call girl, depending on whether she is in our out of her dress. Banned for decades in the USSR, this uproarious new version of Nikolai Erdman's lost comic masterpiece exposes a society riddled with hypocrisy and confusion.

Cast/Performers

Deborah Findlay (Nadejda Petrovna), Sinead Matthews (Nastia), David Collings (Autonom), Naomi Frederick (Varvara Sergeevna), Martin Hutson (Pavel), Adrian Scarborough (Ivan Ivanovich Shironkin), Bruce Alexander (Olymp Valerianovch Smetanich), Sarah-Jane Drummey (Ensemble), Daniel Hart (Anatoly), Sean Jackson (Ensemble), Carol Macready (Vishnevezkaia / Tamara Leopoldovna), Laurence Penry-Jones (Valerian), Michael Rouse (Ensemble), Roger Sloman (An Organ Grinder), Harry Towb (Agaphangel), Anne White (Ensemble)

Creatives/Company

Author: Nikolai Erdman
Producer: Royal National
Director(s): Declan Donnellan, Jane Gibson (movement)
Design: Nick Ormerod
Lighting: Judith Greenwood
Sound: Rich Walsh