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The Mandate
by Nikolai Erdman
in a new version by Declan Donnellan
The revolution turns the Guliachins' world upside down. First they must track down members of the working class to pose as relatives. And there's 'Copenhagen Twilight' to replace with a portrait of Karl Marx. But in a bizarre case of mistaken identity, the cook is confused for the Grand Duchess Anastasia… or a call girl, depending on whether she is in or out of her dress.
Banned for decades in the USSR, this uproarious new version of Nikolai Erdman's lost comic masterpiece exposes a society riddled with hypocrisy and confusion.
Cast credits:
Olymp Valerianovich Smetanich : Bruce Alexander
Autonom : David Collings
Ensemble : Sarah-Jane Drummey
Nadejda Petrovna : Deborah Findlay
Varvara Sergeevna : Naomi Frederick
Anatoly : Daniel Hart
Pavel : Martin Hutson
Ensemble : Sean Jackson
Vishnevezkaia, Tamara Leopoldovna : Carol Macready
Nastia : Sinead Matthews
Valerian : Laurence Penry-Jones
Ensemble : Michael Rouse
Ivan Ivanovich Shironkin : Adrian Scarborough
An Organ Grinder : Roger Sloman
Agaphangel : Harry Towb
Ensemble : Anne White
: Music played live by
Music Director/ keyboards : Walter Fabeck
clarinet / saxophone : Emma Fowler
trumpet : Andrew Gathercole
drums / percussion : Michael Gregory
Production credits:
Director: Declan Donnellan
Designer: Nick Ormerod
Lighting Designer: Judith Greenwood
Music: Catherine Jayes
Director of Movement : Jane Gibson
Sound Designer: Rich Walsh
photo Getty Images
The Mandate finished on: 26 January 2005
