CanStage: The Overcoat ENGLAND LONDON • Barbican Theatre • Ongoing
CanStage
Can clothes change your life? Find out in this intricate, stylised and beautifully choreographed comedy of splendour and madness set in 19th century Russia. Based on Nikolai Gogol's classic short stories The Overcoat and Diary of a Madman, and set to the sweeping music of Shostakovich, this multiple award winning production tells the tale of an ordinary office worker whose life is transformed when he acquires a fabulous new overcoat.