Traverse, EdinburghLiam Brennan gives a tender performance in this funny-sad reworking of the Gogol story, as a lowly Scot buffeted by the forces of globalisation Related: Edinburgh festival planner: three shows to see today In Nikolai Gogol's short story Diary of a Madman, Poprishchin is a lowly Russian civil servant driven mad by his lack of status and his confusion at a changing world. In Al Smith's play, he has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:51AM on August 6, 2016