Ottawa Fringe 2012: The Suicide oozes with energy and physicality.
Fresh from their April performance at the Ottawa Theatre School, Pierre Brault and his merry band of student actors have done a truly great job of tightening the rhythm, introducing explosive energy and a lot of flowing physicality that brings us into the well oiled mechanics of this ferocious satire of socialism under Stalin where a whole society wants to benefit from the dilemma of poor Semyon who is out of a job and sees no other solution but to kill himself. Some very good performances but this is an ensemble piece that gets all its momentum from group action…and they got it!!
Bravo! The Suicide plays at Café Alt and it lasts 90 minutes. It’s a full length play but time slips by quickly.
The Suicide plays at CAFÉ ALT
The Suicide
by Nikolai Erdman
directed by Pierre Brault
Adapted and translated by Eilen Thalenberg & Alan Richardson
Cast
Drew Moore as Semyon Semionovitch Podsekalnikov
Victoria Luloff as Masha
Dyna Ibrahm as Sarafima
Mitchel Rose as Alexander
James Smith as Aristarkh
Nicholas Fournier as Victor
Jonah Alingham as Yegor
Hannah Gibson as Margarita
CaitlinCorbett as Cleo