Zoyka's Apartment
By Mikhail Bulgakov
2015
Zoyka’s Apartment by Mikhail Bulgakov, directed by professional guest director Alexandru Mihail. November 13-14 and 19-21 at 8 pm, Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center.
A tuneful, poignant and subversive farce by the great Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (The Master and Margarita). It’s 1920s post-revolutionary Russia when the hope for freedom means sacrifice and compromise and imagination becomes an escape from harsh realities. Despite a severe housing shortage Zoyka secures a Moscow apartment and to make ends meet opens a brothel that becomes the haven for a diverse group of Muscovites, where social order is turned upside down, and hopes for a new life burn bright. Guest director Alexandru Mihail brings this once-buried gem to musical life with a cast of Princeton undergraduates.
Filmed & edited by Ricardo Diaz '19.
CAST: Carey Camel, Matt Chang, Blaine Crabtree, Tom Dowling, Sam Gelman, Evelyn Giovine, Kasia Kalinowska, Hope Kean, Changshuo Liu, Ugonna Nwabueze, TJ Smith, Justin Sansone, Feysola Soetan, Luke Soucy, Avanthika Srinivasan, Katherine Zhao
CREATIVE TEAM: SET - Kristen Robinson COSTUMES - Montana Levi Blanco LIGHTS - Masha Tsimring
SOUND/MUSIC - Chad Raines
Lewis Center for the Arts/Princeton University