DATE AND VENUE

28, 29.05.1995, 21.15, Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage

İSTANBUL MUNICIPAL THEATRE

• Written by: Nikolay Gogol
• Director: Başar Sabuncu

Of the five short stories whose scene is set in Petersburg, “The Coat” is last and the most influential work of Nikolay Gogol. Later, it was adapted to theatre. “The Coat” is the story of a poor clerk who lives on 400 rubles a year and whose only dream in life is to have a new coat. When at last he has the money and buys the coat, the first time he goes out he is waylaid by thieves and robbed of the coat. He is represented as a pathetically humble and inferior figure, and the story passes through all the gamut of attitudes towards him, from sheer fun to poignant pity.