Petersburg Tales

The Overcoat
Six Performances:
Wednesday, August 4, 6:00 pm
Thursday, August, 5, 9:00 pm
Friday, August 6, 6:00 pm
Saturday, August 7, 2:00 pm
Saturday, August 7, 10:30 pm (NightScape)
Sunday, August 8, 4:00 pm
LUMA Theater

Performed by Credo Theatre (in English)
Dostoevsky said that all Russian literature comes out of Gogol’s Overcoat. So it is fitting that Petersburg Tales opens with the Bulgarian Credo Theatre’s two-person clown show of Gogol’s tale of Akakey Akakievich, the poor St. Petersburg clerk whose soul is smothered by a long-dreamed-of overcoat. Credo has played this production in eight languages around the world, winning many awards.

Nevsky Prospekt
Six Performances:
Wednesday, August 11, 6:00 pm
Thursday, August, 12, 9:00 pm
Friday, August 13, 6:00 pm
Saturday, August 14, 2:00 pm
Saturday, August 14, 10:30 pm (NightScape)
Sunday, August 15, 4:00 pm
Resnick Theater Studio

Performed by Theatre Potudan  (in Russian with English surtitles)
Gogol’s tale of the main boulevard of St. Petersburg and denizens is presented in an extraordinary version for marionettes.

White Cabin
Four Performances:
Wednesday, August 18, 6:00 pm
Thursday, August, 19, 9:00 pm
Friday, August 20, 10:30 pm
Saturday, August 21, 2:00 pm
Saturday, August 21, 10:30 pm (NightScape)
LUMA Theater

Performed by Akhe
Based in St. Petersburg, Akhe—Russian Engineering Theater— is one of the most imaginative and visually sensational physical theater groups in the world. White Cabin won a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 2003 and is a stunning display of how Gogol continues to bewitch and inspire his grandchildren, the artists of St. Petersburg.

Tickets: $30

image ©Ken Reynolds