On the 26th of October, 2012 at 18-00 on the Big Stage (74 Chapaeva st.) of Saratov Academic Kiselev Youth Theater an opening night of the performance «The Suicide» written by N. Erdman will take place.

Director – Mikhail Bychkov (Voronezh)
Production designer – Nikolay Simonov (Moscow)
Costume designer –  Elena Stepanova (Moscow)

In the end of October, 2012 on the Big Stage of Saratov Academic Kiselev Youth Theater an opening night of the first premiere in the 95th theater season - «The Suicide» play written by N. Erdman will take place. Director – Mikhail Bychkov (Voronezh), production designer – Nikolay Simonov (Moscow), costume designer – Elena Stepanova (Moscow).

Nikolay Robertovich Erdman (1900-1970) was a Soviet playwright, poet, script writer. He worked on the screenplays for the “Jolly Fellows” and “Volga-Volga” and other movie pictures that are now Soviet cinema classics. His first play “The Mandate” in the 20s of the last century was successfully staged all over the country. His second play for theater, “The Suicide” comedy written in 1928 was highly praised by K.S. Stanislavsky and V.E. Meyerhold who even wanted to stage it but Soviet censors didn’t allow the play to be produced in the theater until 1982.

Action of the play takes place in Moscow in 1920s. In the center of the story is a comic paradox about lost and bewildered man, Semyon Semyonovitch Podsekalnikov, who finds a new meaning of this life after his households get the idea that he wants to kill himself. Before that no one cared about him and now Podsekalnikov is the center of attention surrounded by attendance and courtship and a whole line of bidders is at his doors. The only problem is that all of them can’t wait to see him dead… A brilliant comedy writer and playwright in “The Suicide” N. Erdman was able to bring true tragedy and lyrics into the contrapuntal scenes with masks of Everymen, humanity notes appeared in the satirical play.

The performance’s director Mikhail Bychkov is known to Saratov audience by his production of “Kashtanka” based on A.Chekhov works in Riga Russian Drama Theater that toured in Saratov in 2001, and “The Winter” (play by Evgeny Grishkovets) production of the Voronezh Kamerny (Chamber) Theater shown in frames of the First Open Festival of theaters for children “From A to Z”. In 2004 in Saratov Kiselev Youth Theater an opening night of Gogol’s “The Inspector General” staged by Mikhail Bychkov took place. This performance is one of the most popular and loved ones among spectators of all ages.