To Die For [A Comedy]

Elena Langer's black comedy, based on Nikolai Erdman's once-banned play The Suicide, follows unemployed Semyon in the chaotic Russia of the 1990s. When his private despair is seized upon by opportunists, his threatened death becomes a grotesque celebrity spectacle and live television event. Sam Brown directs the original Nederlandse Reisopera and Phion Symphony Orchestra production, performed in English by its original cast.