This one man play had an excellent pedigree , having won a best play of 2007 award.The dialogue faithfully follows the Gogol short story.As with one man plays the acting is intense , with rich flowing movement.The simple set and touchingly emotive lighting also give a wonderfully complimentary emotional garment to the piece.
The St.Petersburg of Gogols day was an artificial town populated by a vast hierarchy of bureaucracy.An environment of craven social progressing laced with a deadening void of alienation.Certainly not a place to Gogols taste.
The Pain and suffering , both within and outwith , for the poor unfortunate plaintiff , of a deliberately grinding and mindnumbingly perpetual stalled bureaucracy designed to be a barrier to any trends challenging the status quo of the ruling order is also examined in mindsplitting irony.
The story itself is said to be one of the first recorded cases of schizophrenia , the real question is whether it is a disease of chemical imbalance or a disease of modern living.A question that seems to come up today with an added urgency as contracts take over from careers.
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