Dead Souls
2021 · 2h 10m
If you're in the mood for ambitious, intellectually provocative theater that wrestles with timeless questions through a bold modern lens, absolutely watch this. Kocherzhevsky's inventive staging of Gogol's masterpiece sounds like the kind of thought-provoking evening that'll stick with you—just go in ready to think, not expecting easy answers.
Plot
Roman Kocherzhevsky's endlessly inventive reimagining of Gogol's classic Russian poem shakes off a layer of dust from the revered work to help us answer questions we all face today. It doesn't matter whether Kocherzhevsky has dressed his actors in waterproof trench coats or embroidered tailcoats, furnished the stage with delicate antiquities or Danish modern. In the end, as Gogol himself asks of us, "Isn't there some part of Chichikov in me too?"