In New York they will show a one-man play 'Notes of a Madman' based on Gogol: he has already captivated American audiences and critics

For several years now, Ilya Volokh's one-man show “Notes of a Madman” has been collecting rave reviews from viewers and critics in several US cities. And now this performance based on the famous story by Nikolai Gogol is returning to the stage of New York.

You can see the play "Notes of a Madman" at the American Theater of Actors on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays until December 4th. Buy tickets you can here to register:.

The performance was a hit with critics, audiences, and theater journalists in Los Angeles and New York. The play won a theater award. LA Weekly for the best solo performance.

“This is one of the most amazing performances I have ever seen in my life!” Oscar-nominated actress Sally Kirkland said about Madman's Notes.

The hero of Notes of a Madman is Aksenty Poprishchin, a petty Petersburg official. At the beginning of the "Notes" he describes his life and work, then he writes about his feelings for the director's daughter, and soon after that, signs of his insanity begin to appear. After a few days, he completely breaks away from reality - he begins to understand that he is the king of Spain, and the farther, the more he plunges into the depths of his fantasy. At the end of his notes completely lose their meaning, turning into a set of phrases.

The role of Poprishchin in the play "Notes of a Madman" was played by a famous actor, a graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School, an immigrant from Ukraine, Ilya Volokh.

He starred in American movies and television series 150. Among them are popular ones like Air Force One, U-Turn, Indiana Jones — 4, The Pause Sacrifice, Water for Elephants, Mission Impossible 4 with Tom Cruise, Abduction with Alfred Molina, GI JOE-2 with Bruce Willis.

The performance is in English.