Local group Theatre du Pif will present Overcoat, an English play based on the century-old masterpiece by Nikolai Gogol about the alienating world of a bureaucratic office in st Petersburg.

本地剧团进剧场将公演一出英语话剧大衣。大衣改编自nikolai Gogol的百年名著讲述关于圣彼德堡的一个官僚化办公室里疏离的世界。

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