“Fokin found a concise and voluminous metaphor: his overcoat is the world, without which, every living thing will perish.  Within the performance’s sixty minutes, Marina Neelova played everything possible: the quiet happiness of a comfortable existence, the realization of her overcoat-home’s decrepitude, horror at the necessity of constructing a new one, poverty, and love.  And she played love of the truest sort: from the first awkward caresses of a new overcoat’s luxurious cloth, to coquettish caprices and a tender falling into its wide embrace.”

Yevgeny Polivanov

Gazeta.ru, October 6th 2005

The premiere was held on 4/10/2005
Performance duration: 1 h.

Staged by:
Direction — Valery Fokin
Scene Design — Alexander Borovsky
Choreography — Sergei Gritsai
Music — Alexander Bakshi.

Performed by:
In the role of Bashmachkin – Marina Neelova, Shadow Performers – Vyacheslav Ignatov, Maria Litvinova, Irina Mishina, Aleksei Veselov.

Press:
Fatal Weakness, , , 15/10/2005
The Overcoat: Quotations from Theatre Reviews, , , 19/01/2006