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The Suicide
by Nikolai Erdman
Translated by: Masa Dinescu
Stage version: Felix Alexa
CAST:
SEMION SEMIONOVICH PODSEKALNIKOV - Dan Puric
ALEKSANDR PETROVICH KALABUSHKIN - Costel Constantin
SERAFIMA ILINICHINA - Adela Marculescu
MARIA LUKIANOVNA - Ileana Olteanu
ARISTARKH DOMINIKOVICH GRAND-SCUBIK - Marius Bodochi
EGORUSHKA - Marius Manole
MARGARITA IVANOVNA - Tania Popa
FATHER ELPIDI - Andrei Finti
KLEOPATRA MAKSIMOVNA - Maria Buza
VIKTOR VIKTOROVICH - Silviu Biris
RAISA FILIPPOVNA - Lamia Beligan
ZINKA - Rodica Ionescu
NIKIFOR ARSENTIEVICH PUGACHEV - Florin Lazarescu
THE SEAMSTRESS - Tatiana Constantin
A WAITER / AN UNDERTAKER - Vitalie Bichir
A WAITER / AN UNDERTAKER - Mihai Cuciumeanu
A WOMAN - Madalina Ciupitu
THE CHILD - Nikita Dembinski
Directed by: Felix Alexa
Set and costume design: Diana Ruxandra Ion
Musical illustation and light design: Felix Alexa
Play duration: 2h 15min (with intermission)
Photo: Tudor Predescu
The role created by Erdman is a perfect mirror for the complex personality of one of the symbol artists of Romanian stage today, the actor Dan Puric. The box-office success of the show is mainly due to the protagonist, who has become a kind of expressive effigy of human suffering in which anyone can recognize at least one bit of one’s self.
