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Home > Theatre > Trouble with talking dogs and plate-smashing mothers?

Trouble with talking dogs and plate-smashing mothers?

By Caroline King - July 24, 2010Posted in : Theatre

When: 29th & 30th July 2010 at 8pm

Where: The Old Joint Stock, 4 Temple Row West, Birmingham, B2 5NY

£: 10 (8 Concessions)

What is it?

Little Earthquake presents Gogol’s Madman by Gareth Nicholls.   It features new music by Hu McEvoy and is based on ‘Diary of a Madman’ by Nikolai Gogol.  Saddled with a surname meaning pimple, hounded by talking dogs, and harassed by his plate-smashing mother, life is hard for St. Petersburg’s most misunderstood lonely heart.  When Poprishchin falls truly, deeply…and madly in love, reason and order fall spectacularly apart.

Using the company’s trademark transformation of everyday objects into the stuff of nightmares, Little Earthquake presents an inventive, highly charged stage version of Gogol’s story, recently voted by Penguin as one of the best books ever written.

More info: Old Joint Stock Theatre

Tagged With: West Midlands

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