Drama Performance

Tarelkin's death

based on the novel by A.Sukhovo-Kobylin, director – S.Serzin, St. Petersburg, 2016

Set designer, costume designer

Sukhovo-Kobylin’s black comedy. A middling clerk, drowning in debt and hounded by creditors, works out that nothing can be collected from a dead man — so when his neighbour dies he takes the dead man’s name and papers for himself.

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Production

Premiere: 16 December 2016
Theatre: Priyut Komedianta, St Petersburg
Running time: 2 h 30 min, one interval
Rating: 16+

Creative team

Director: Semyon Serzin
Play by: Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin
Set design: Sofya Matveeva
Composer: Evgeny Serzin
Movement: Anna Zakusova

Cast

Kandid Kastorovich Tarelkin: Oleg Senchenko · Viktor Bugakov
Maxim Kuzmich Varravin: Zhenya Anisimov
Ivan Antonovich Rasplyuev: Andrey Vergelis
Impresario, Mavrusha, Antiokh Elpidiforovich Okh: Ilya Borisov
Kachala-shatala, the clerk Vanechka: Mikhail Kasapov
Lyudmila Spiridonovna Brandahlystova, Doctor Unmeglichkeit: Yulia Bashorina