Gogol Lab

The Horseradish Theatre

JUNE 27, 2026 | 7:00 PM
VANCITY CULTURE LAB

RENTAL EVENT

Showtimes

June 27th at 7:00pm

Ticket Info

General Admission

Seat: $30.00 + service charge

Content Warning

This show is presented in Russian with no English language headsets.

Sensory Warning

Flashing lights, haze.

Box Office Info

Phone:604-251-1363
Email: [email protected]

Monday to Saturday: 12–4pm
Sunday: Closed

Open 1 hour prior to every show
Venue Info

VANCITY CULTURE LAB
1895 Venables St.
Vancouver, BC

Grigorii Gorkovenko of GORKOVENKO DESIGN STUDIO

About

Public Workshop Presentation

Носы живут собственной жизнью. Мёртвые души путешествуют по России. Черти крадут месяц с неба. А чиновники боятся собственного отражения.

Мир Гоголя одновременно смешон и страшен, реален и фантастичен. И именно поэтому он остаётся таким современным.

Участники лаборатории представят свои фантазии, этюды и сценические исследования по мотивам произведений Николая Гоголя. Мы попробуем заглянуть туда, где смешное неожиданно становится тревожным, а нелепое – удивительно точным.

Погрузимся в этот странный, мир, который Николай Васильевич придумал почти двести лет назад, – и который до сих пор подозрительно похож на наш.

 

Public Workshop Presentation

Noses live lives of their own. Dead souls travel across Russia. Devils steal the moon from the sky. And officials are afraid of their own reflection.

Gogol’s world is simultaneously funny and terrifying, real and fantastical. And that is precisely why it remains so relevant today.

The workshop participants will present their fantasies, etudes, and stage explorations inspired by the works of Nikolai Gogol. We will try to look into the place where the funny unexpectedly becomes unsettling, and the absurd turns out to be strikingly precise.

Let’s immerse ourselves in this strange world that Nikolai Vasilyevich created almost two hundred years ago – and which still suspiciously resembles our own.