The Suicide, Nikolai Erdman's biting 1928 satire of Soviet thought control, so overflows with ironies that they seem to slosh into real life. To begin with, the play died by its own hand: Erdman's antiauthoritarian comedy (a character says he read Marx but didn't like it) was deemed too subversive ... More »
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PM on January 8, 2015