'Hotel': Room of Lost Souls

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 12, 1999| Author: Lloyd Rose | Copyright information

In "A Hotel Room in the Town of NN," which opened last night for a six-performance run at the Kennedy Center, the tiny audience of 65 is seated on the set--around the edges and up under where the eaves might be, looking in on a sordid hotel room in an unnamed town in 19th-century Russia. Hope will flutter in this room in the next 90 minutes, vanity will caper, and reality will crash down as our protagonist Chichikov (Avangard Leontiev) schemes to make his fortune from a list of the dead, and ...

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