Sarah McCarroll, MFA, PhD

This translation of Gogol's nineteenth century text highlights the farcical nature of the action. I suggested to the director that, rather than keeping the play in its original period, we update it to the 1930s (moving the action roughly 100 years forward in time), and take as our inspiration the screwball comedies of the Marx Brothers, in which peasant or traditional European garb often appears in the same story as overblown military uniforms and up-to-the minute fashionable dress.