| Instrumentation: | 8 actors, piano |
| Duration: | 90' |
| Year Composed: | 2002 |
| Book: | Robert Rival after the story by Nikolai Gogol |
| Lyrics: | Alan Moon |
The Two Ivans. Drawing by Chantal-Andrée Samson.
“Poison Root”
(Gorpina, serf of Ivan Nikiforovich)
“Panko's Petition”
(“Squinting” Ivan Ivanovich, Court Assessor, & Demyan Demyanovich, District Judge)
“Nikiforovich's Petition”
(Taras Tikhonovich, Court Secretary, & Ivan Nikiforovich, landowner)
Drawing on farce and satire, the musical, set in mid-19th-century Russia and as seen through the eyes of Panko, the red-haired beekeeper, is about two landowners and neighbours whose petty quarrel involving a gun, a sow, and a gander, leads to their mutual ruin.
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