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BEWARE! FOR AT NIGHT A GHOST IS LURKING, READY TO SNATCH YOUR COAT……
暖大衣 THE OVERCOAT
About the playwright Nikolai Gogol (果戈里) (1809-1852)
As the freezing Russian winter approaches, Akaky, a lonely civil service clerk,
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and
discovers that his old overcoat has reached its final stages and can no longer
novelist. At the age of 22, he published the first volume of short stories
be repaired. It has become the laughing-stock of the whole office. He goes to
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka《狄康卡近鄉夜話》, which led him to an
the tailor, Petrovich and after much bargaining, Petrovitch finally agrees to
important position in Russian’s literary world. The novel Dead Souls《死魂靈》,
make him a new overcoat. Akaky finally saves enough money to get his new
the play The Government Inspector 《欽差大臣》 and the short story The
overcoat and we follow the fate of Akaky and his coat that leads to a
Overcoat《外套》are those among his masterpieces.
surprising ending. After leaving the high school, he made the journey to St. Petersburg to search Performed in English
for a government job, but only ended up with a junior civil servant in housing department. Living in poverty, he experienced the bureaucratic corruption and depression of the poor, which became the inspiration of his literary style. His satirical work undermined Russian Romanticism, and he was recognized as one of the early figures of Realism in Russian Literature.
Director: Bonni Chan Performer: Sean Curran, Anne Tam, Karen Chan, Dorothy Chu, Tomas Tse, Luke Lai
Project Coordinator: Phoenix Lee Production Manager: Lawrence Lee Stage Manager: Fan Man Yan
CAT·14 is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding
Assistant Stage Manager: Chan Kwun Wang, Cheung Wai Shan, Kwong Ka Chun
Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Company Manager: Jamie Wu
The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the
Company Assistant: Winnie Fung, Kiki Ng
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.