10th Madách International Theatre Meeting

The renowned Georgian director - who doubles as Artistic Director of Griboyedov State Academic Russian Drama Theatre, Tbilisi - Avtandil Varsimashvili has staged a highly original adaptation of one of Gogol's most famous works "The Overcoat". Demolishing established stage clichés, the play's ad hoc spontaneous dynamic has the audience encountering not the classical Gogol characters, but virtuoso actors performing the absurd story of "The Overcoat" here and now. The performance is a strange fairy-tale fantasy, a dream seen through a magical prism, with Love as its central theme. The protagonist Akaky Akakievich Basmachkin is not a worn-out, clumsy little man, but a creative personality - an artist of belles-lettres who, instead of dreaming of an overcoat, yearns for love. And just when he seems to have found it, this love is stolen from him...