COCKROACHES
An original translation and adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s play “Flight”.

Mikhail Bulgakov’s earlier, uncensored version of “Flight” translated and directed for the first time by Anastasiya Sosis for the UK stages, is a tragedy set in the last days of the Russian Civil War. Five refugees flee the impending Soviet rule in search of freedom and a better life, only to find poverty and indifference in foreign lands.

Forced to abandon his home by the starvation of St. Petersburg but hoping for an impending victory of the Pro-Royal army forces, Sergey Golubkov, a naïve intellectual, embarks on a journey to Crimea, where he hopes to wait out the conflict. However, confronted with the realities of war, the cruelty and evil that men, not ideologies produce, he is thrust deep into the nightmare that is his journey to save a woman he loves, a stranger, met on a train station, under a lamp.

Cockroaches explores the modern-day issue of the refugee crisis, showing how people are reduced to the very basic forms of themselves by the disdain of their homeland and the indifference of the rest of the world.

The play had a successful run at Camden Fringe in 2016 and Edinburg Fringe in 2017, as well as the return to London for a week-long run in March 2018 at Etcetera Theatre.

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