Cockroaches is an original translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s earlier, uncensored version of “Flight”, translated and directed by Anastasiya Sosis.
Cockroaches is a tragedy set in the last days of the Russian Civil War. Five refugees flee the impending Soviet rule in search of freedom and a better life, only to find poverty and indifference in foreign lands.
Burdened by the starvation of St. Petersburg and imagining an impending victory of the Pro-Royal army forces, naive and intellectual Sergey Golubkov embarks on a journey to Crimea. He hopes to wait out the conflict and return home, but is instead confronted by the atrocities of war, cruelties created not by ideology but by man.
He is thrust into a nightmare, journeying to save a woman he loves: a refugee he met in the lamplight at the train station.
theSpace on the Mile |80 High St | EH1 1TH (Space 1) |4 – 12 (not 6) August |10:05am
Tickets here : £9.00 (£7.00) 4 – 5th August previews; £7.00 (£5.00) 7 – 9th August; £9.00 (£7.00) 10 – 12th August.
