Saturday, 21 October 2017
– Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Location: HOME, Manchester
On from 21-31 October, Manchester School of Theatre is going to be performing The Suicide (Nikolai Erdman) at HOME, which coincides with the anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
The Suicide By Nikolai Erdman, Translated by Peter Tegel
Directed by David Shirley
Written in 1928, Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide is considered one of the finest plays to have emerged from the early phase of Communist Russia. When Semyon, a young unemployed man contemplates suicide following his failed attempt to learn how to play the tuba, he suddenly finds himself besieged and exploited by various sympathetic visitors pleading with him to make his own suicide a social gesture on their behalf.
Acerbic, Imaginative and very humorous, the play offers a telling critique of the political machinations that characterized the years immediately following the Russian Revolution.
Performances (7.15pm start)
Designer: Olivia Du Monceau
£10.00 full price
£6.00 concessionary
£3.00 students (Thursdays only)
Location: HOME, Manchester