Viktor Lukawski and Adam Paolozza star in The Double, the final show in the Hudson Village Theatre summer line-up. (Photo courtesy of the Hudson Village Theatre)
The curtain will rise this week on the fourth and final show in the Hudson Village Theatre’s summer season. Bad New Days, a visiting theatre company, will debut “The Double”, a comedy that was adapted from an 1846 novella of the same title written by Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. The show will run from Sept. 7-11. Described as an over-the-top physical comedy, the play centers around an anxious government clerk and what happens when he meets a strange lookalike who is everything the clerk is not: daring, romantic, brash, and a success at everything at which the clerk fumbles. Is the man his double? Or is the clerk simply paranoid? The satire, which won a Dora Mavor Moor Award, features Dostoevsky’s prose presented by actors Viktor Lukawski, Arif Mirabdolbaghi and Adam Paolozza, who created the show which he additionally directs. Village Theatre Artistic Director Matt Tiffin said he chose “The Double” partly because it’s based on a literary classic. “It’s brilliant: a stylish, funny, imaginative and exciting piece of physical theatre created by a group of young artists who all trained at L’École Jacques Lecoq in Paris. It is part Charlie Chaplin, part mystery, part psychological thriller and pure entertainment,” Tiffin explained. “The Double” will run, with matinee and evening performances, from Sept. 7-11 at the Hudson Village Theatre, 28 Wharf Rd. For tickets or information call the box office at 450 458-5361, or go to www.villagetheatre.ca.
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