Events - 1982

Gogol

Theatre
Presented by: Brighton Theatre
At: Price Theatre
101 Grote St, Adelaide

Australian premiere. Exclusive to the Fringe.

This outstanding play was commissioned for the Brighton Festival. Gogol has appeared at the Edinburgh, Belfast and Oxford Festivals, at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and the Royal Court Theatre, London, has been heard on BBC Radio 3 and World Service, and on French and Swedish radio. It has also toured Sweden, Poland and Russia. Later this year it. will open in New York.

Written and performed by Richard Crane, it is an original response to the life and words of Nikolay Gogol, and traces the extraordinary rise and fall of an Electricity Board Clerk, the oral diary of Gogol's Hero, his Nose and Clothes 129 years later. Music from Shostakovich's opera The Nose.

Richard Crane was the first resident dramatist for the National Theatre, London, five times the winner of Edinburgh Fringe First Awards. Directed by Faynia Williams. London's Daily Telegraph wrote of her work: "apart from Peter Brook, no other director has her imaginative understanding of European total theatre." She was recently nominated for a London Critics Award for Best Production/Design for Satan's Ball.

An extraordinary play, extraordinarily acted, extraordinarily directed. Brought to Australia with the assistance of the British Council.