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Nikolai Robertovich Erdman (Russian: Николай Робертович Эрдман, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ˈrobʲɪrtəvʲɪtɕ ˈɛrdmən] ⓘ; 16 November [O.S. 3 November] 1900, Moscow – 10 August 1970) was a Soviet dramatist and screenwriter primarily remembered for his work with Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s.
Playwright Nikolai Erdman was exiled to Siberia; the play’s director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, was accused of treason and executed by firing squad in the purges of the mid-30s; his wife – assistant director Zinaida Raikh – was stabbed to death in their apartment by NKVD agents.
The Suicide is a 1928 play by the Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman. Its performance was proscribed during the Stalinist era and it was only produced in Russia several years after the death of its writer.
Oct 7, 2015 · The Tragic Tale of a Comic Suicide. By John Freedman. Oct. 7, 2015. However improbable it sounds, in 1928 Nikolai Erdman wrote a very funny play about suicide, human longing, and the worst...
Feb 6, 2011 · A Great Russian Playwright Rediscovered as a Great Screenwriter. By John Freedman. Feb. 6, 2011. Nikolai Erdman's comedy "The Suicide" tells the story of a forlorn, unemployed man whom...
May 13, 2013 · The Suicide by Nikolai Erdman. Performed by Coventry University Theatre and Professional Practice.
Apr 1, 2015 · I have written about Nikolai Erdman's tragicomedy "The Suicide" for 35 years and I have rarely seen it done with the deep, devastating understanding that Sergei Zhenovach brings to it at the...
