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Review The Overcoat
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THEATRE: Diverse Attractions (venue 11)
AKAKY Akakyevich is the fool of St Petersburg. A simpleton,
government clerk, he dutifully copies the documents churned out by
the labyrinthine, Russian bureaucracy. But after a lifetime accepting
his lot, he finally buys a new overcoat and, with it, discovers pride
- the mechanism of his undoing.
This Gogol adaptation was one of the Fringe's back street hits
last year. This time around, the performance lacks the same freshness
and innocence.
Instead, it is a little louder, a little less subtle. Changes to
the cast have been made. Ian Bunt still ...
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