Heading into opening night of Dying for It at Artistic Home, I wasn't sure what to expect from Moira Buffini's adaptation of The Suicide, a 1928 satire by Soviet playwright Nikolai Erdman that was banned by Joseph Stalin. Frankly, the subject matter sounded a bit niche"or maybe I was just feeling rusty on Soviet history […] The post Soviet slapstick appeared first on Chicago Reader.
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:03PM on March 30, 2023