The show already exists as a score the composer, Alexander Manotskov wrote music for the production and I made the adaptation. That’s to say a situation, where one cheat wants to swindle everyone but in the end gets swindled by other cheats. "This story is a projection of the “Dead Souls” into another of Gogol’s texts, “The Gamblers”. They are performed by the whole choir of actors and suddenly become to bear a resemblance to the songs of Bertolt Brecht, but the question „Russia, what do you want from me?“ stays without an answer. They are based on Gogol’s “lyrical digressions” - philosophical texts about Russia from the poem. The songs for the show were specially written by a well-known Russian contemporary composer Alexander Manotskov. Chichikov becomes a victim of this world without any way out. Every actor plays multiple roles, so Gogol’s landlords are flawlessly turning into old women, children, rustic drunks, ladies, horses or dog pack. Masterly fictional theatre meets detailed theatre of psychological school. Gogol’s characters move in the cramped space among the plywood walls - in the box without a possibility of escape.
Serebrennikov creates the full image of Russian life where nothing ever changes. Different ages meet each other in everlasting Russian timelessness, where absurd and trouble have broken loose. In Kirill Serebrennikov's show the Nikolai Gogol's poem about the costumer of "dead souls" Pavel Chichikov isn't transfered to nowadays literary but it gets completely new and relevant voice. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s poem “Dead souls” is the first Gogol Center large-scale project on Russian classics.
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