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Fatal Weakness, THE MOSCOW TIMES

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From: The Moscow Times (Russia)
Date: 20041015
Author:John Freedman

John Freedman
The Moscow Times (Russia)
10-15-2004
URL: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/
Gogol's timid clerk is larger than life in a sexless and ageless performance
by Marina Neyolova.
A new dramatization of Nikolai Gogol's story "The Overcoat," created
by director Valery Fokin in collaboration with the composer Alexander Bakshi,
gives us reason to step back and gain perspective on one of Moscow's most
inventive and fruitful creative teams of the last decade.
Fokin and Bakshi first joined forces 14 years ago on "A Woman
Possessed," an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Idiot." But their
...

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