N. V. Gogol

Dead Souls

november
18
Wednesday
19:00
december
13
Sunday
18:30
january
9
Saturday
19:00

Main stage
RO
EN
14+
3h 30' with intermission
Chichikov, Pavel Ivanovich
Miklós Bács
 
Sobakevich, landowner
Róbert Kardos M.
 
Feudulina Sofronovna, his wife
Júlia Laczó
 
Nozdryov, landowner
Szabolcs Balla
 
Manilov, landowner
Attila Orbán
 
Lizochka, his wife
Csilla Albert
 
Korobochka, landowner
Andrea Kali
 
Plyushkin, landowner
Áron Dimény
 
Selifan, Chichikov’s coachman
Tamás Kiss
 
Petrushka, Chichikov’s valet
Alpár Fogarasi
 
Governor
József Bíró
 
Governor’s wife
Emőke Kató
 
Caterina, their daughter
Hannah Daradics
 
Chief of Police
András Buzási
 
Pelageja, his wife
Zsuzsa Tőtszegi
 
President of the Court of Appeal
Zsolt Bogdán
 
Anna, his wife
Réka Csutak
 
Prosecutor
Balázs Bodolai
 
Postmaster
Róbert Laczkó Vass
 
Sofia, his wife
Anikó Pethő
 
Kirill, Archpriest
 
Public Health Inspector
 
Emilia, his wife
Eszter Román
 
Deputy Governor
Ervin Szűcs
 
Deputy Governor’s wife
Gizella Kicsid
 
Arshavsky, master tailor
Csaba Marosán
 
Miuyev, Nozdryov’s brother-in-law
Loránd Farkas
 
Prison Guard / Porfiry / Andriushka / Mavra / Officials I–VI:
Zsolt Gedő
 
Fetina, Korobochka’s maid:
Melinda Kántor
 
“Mother Russia”
Andrea Vindis
 
Waiter
Gergő Biró
directed by
István Szabó K.
 
dramaturgy
István Bessenyei-Gedő
 
costume design
Bianca Imelda Jeremias
 
set designer
Gyopár Bocskai
 
music composed by
Tibor Cári
 
director's assistant
Orsolya Csengeri
 
stage manager
Enikő Albert
Date of the opening: October 17, 2026
An unscrupulous man named Chichikov — “neither handsome nor ugly; neither fat nor thin,” arrives at Governor N.’s residence. His simple yet ingenious plan — to “buy” serfs who are still listed as alive on census forms but who, in reality, have already died, in order to then take out a government loan in their names — seems plausible even today. Does the case of “dead voters” sound familiar? Well, of course! Gogol’s hell seems, at first glance, almost childishly simple and predictable, and yet, behind the foolish grin of the living dead lies a much deeper and darker reality — a grotesque and corrupt abyss at the very core of human existence.