Lyttelton, LondonSuhayla El-Bushra brings Nikolai Erdman's 1928 social comedy into the modern day, but leaves its eccentricity and subversion behindThe National Theatre these days seems suspicious of classic texts. After adaptations or condensations of Turgenev and DH Lawrence, we now have an update of a subversive satire by Nikolai Erdman that was written in 1928 and banned by the Soviet authorities in 1932. But whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AM on April 15, 2016