Event Date and Time:
October 29, 2009 – November 1, 2009
October 29-November 1 and November 3-7 @8pm, October 31 @2pm
Location:
Abe Burrows Theatre
721 Broadway, 1st Floor
New York, NY 10003
Directed and translated by
Dmitry Troyanovsky
Music Director Craig Judelman
Creative Team
Set Design:
Katherine WhiteCostume Design:
Christa BoydLighting Design:
Chelsea ConnorSound Design:
Claire MarburgStage Manager:
Brittany Gischner
Description
This Russian ensemble comedy, now acknowledged as a classic, uses biting satire to expose the real, as opposed to perceived, value of money. The New York Times described the play in part as “about the victory of art and humanity over hypocrisy and pomposity … about generosity, and the joy, the grandeur of acting, with two vagabond actors first diverting, then driving a cunningly structured storyline. It is about the wrenching anxiety of holding on to your money when you're losing it. And it is also about what a woman of her time has to do -- to hold on to her life.” The Department of Drama presents an all new adaptation and translation that brings this great work to life with compelling immediacy.
