Because these days, everything’s a joke. Isn’t it?
by Nicolai Erdman
directed by Suzanne Agins
Considered the first great 20th century Russian comedy and banned by Stalin, this Soviet-era play follows a poor, beleaguered, penniless Russian peasant as a gaggle of characters pursue him to use his misfortune to further their own causes. A comic cure for political headaches.
Cast
EUGENIO VARGAS
Semyon Podsekalnikov
GABRA ZACKMAN
Masha Lukianovna
ERICK GONZALEZ
Alexander Petrovich Kalabushkin
CAROL HALSTEAD
Serafima
CARLA BRISCOE
Margarita Ivanovna
PAUL BERNARDO
Yegor Timofeevich
CHRISTINA ROUNER
Aristarkh Dominikovich Grand-Skubnik
ARIEL NEEMA BLAKE
Kleopatra Maximovna
STEPHEN BEL DAVIES
Father Yelpidy
GRAHAM STEVENS
Viktor Viktorovich
KIMBERLY CHATTERJEE
Raisa Filipovna
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