THE OVERCOAT
Created and Directed by MORRIS PANYCH and WENDY GORLING
Based on a short story of NIKOLAI GOGOL
March 17 – April 8, 2007
Shoctor Theatre
The Overcoat integrates physical theatre and the sweeping music of Shostakovich to tell a richly detailed story of the transformation of a common man's ordinary life when he acquires a beautiful new coat. His identify is changed, his place in society shifts and his life is shattered.
This bittersweet tale of passage is absolutely astonishing. Set admidst the grandeur and poverty of the universal metropolis, 22 actors conjure the recognizable tale of how the need to be popular can inspire lust, envy and exquisite madness.
OLIVER
Lyrics and Book by Lionel Bart
Produced for the Broadway stage by David Merrick and Donald Albery
Based on the story Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Directed by BOB BAKER
April 28 – June 03, 2007
Shoctor Theatre
Orphaned and forced to live in a brutal workhouse, young Oliver wants “more†than the pitiable hand dealt him by fate. Sold to th local undertaker, he escapes into the seamy under world of Victorian London where he falls in with a gang of child pickpockets.
