Dead Souls

The Eno River Players and the Yale Bookends present Dead Souls, a new translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s 1932 adaptation of Gogol’s classic satirical novel. Dead Souls follows the exploits of Chichikov, a social climbing conman, as he journeys aboard his troika through the Russian countryside meeting strange landowners and purchasing the deeds of dead serfs. The show is a hilarious and pointed satire of Imperial Russian aristocracy and dehumanizing capitalism. The first ever English production of Bulgakov’s adaptation, this production brings an important piece of theater history to life with original, somewhat bizarre, staging well suited for Gogol’s epic of the everyday grotesque. In this version of the play, three actors embody more than 30 characters and tell the whole story in under 80 minutes.

Our tour of Dead Souls opens in Durham before traveling to New York and London.

The Eno River Players and the Yale Bookends present Dead Souls, a new translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s 1932 adaptation of Gogol’s classic satirical novel. Dead Souls follows the exploits of Chichikov, a social climbing conman, as he journeys aboard his troika through the Russian countryside meeting strange landowners and purchasing the deeds of dead serfs. The show is a hilarious and pointed satire of Imperial Russian aristocracy and dehumanizing capitalism. The first ever English production of Bulgakov’s adaptation, this production brings an important piece of theater history to life with original, somewhat bizarre, staging well suited for Gogol’s epic of the everyday grotesque. In this version of the play, three actors embody more than 30 characters and tell the whole story in under 80 minutes.

Our tour of Dead Souls opens in Durham before traveling to New York and London.

The Eno River Players and the Yale Bookends present Dead Souls, a new translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s 1932 adaptation of Gogol’s classic satirical novel. Dead Souls follows the exploits of Chichikov, a social climbing conman, as he journeys aboard his troika through the Russian countryside meeting strange landowners and purchasing the deeds of dead serfs. The show is a hilarious and pointed satire of Imperial Russian aristocracy and dehumanizing capitalism. The first ever English production of Bulgakov’s adaptation, this production brings an important piece of theater history to life with original, somewhat bizarre, staging well suited for Gogol’s epic of the everyday grotesque. In this version of the play, three actors embody more than 30 characters and tell the whole story in under 80 minutes.

Our tour of Dead Souls opens in Durham before traveling to New York and London.

The Eno River Players and the Yale Bookends present Dead Souls, a new translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s 1932 adaptation of Gogol’s classic satirical novel. Dead Souls follows the exploits of Chichikov, a social climbing conman, as he journeys aboard his troika through the Russian countryside meeting strange landowners and purchasing the deeds of dead serfs. The show is a hilarious and pointed satire of Imperial Russian aristocracy and dehumanizing capitalism. The first ever English production of Bulgakov’s adaptation, this production brings an important piece of theater history to life with original, somewhat bizarre, staging well suited for Gogol’s epic of the everyday grotesque. In this version of the play, three actors embody more than 30 characters and tell the whole story in under 80 minutes.

Our tour of Dead Souls opens in Durham before traveling to New York and London.