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THE SUICIDE
BY NIKOLAI ERDMAN
ADAPTED BY BEN NAYLOR FROM A LITERAL TRANSLATION BY CHARLOTTE PYKE
Directors Ben Naylor and Anna Healey
Wednesday 29 July – Saturday 1 August, 7.30pm
at
Embassy Theatre
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
University of London
Eton Avenue
London NW3 3HY
Performed by MA Acting Classical
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THE SUICIDE
BY NIKOLAI ERDMAN
ADAPTED BY BEN NAYLOR FROM A LITERAL TRANSLATION BY CHARLOTTE PYKE
Directors Ben Naylor and Anna Healey
Wednesday 29 July – Saturday 1 August, 7.30pm
at
Embassy Theatre
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
University of London
Eton Avenue
London NW3 3HY
Performed by MA Acting Classical
On 9 November 1931, Stalin wrote to Stanislavsky: ‘I do not have a very high opinion of the play The Suicide. My closest comrades consider it empty, and even harmful.’
Erdman’s brilliant philosophical farce, though banned by Stalin’s censors and never performed in Soviet Russia, has been called ‘the greatest play in the Soviet repertory.’
Fizzing with fierce and absurdist satirical energy, The Suicide is a reminder of theatre’s crucial capacity to threaten authority through comedy.
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Ute