Moira Buffini's Dying For It, Starring Joey Slotnick, Opens Off-Broadway

The American premiere of Moira Buffini’s Dying For It opens officially on January 8. The off-Broadway production, which stars Joey Slotnick, will run through January 18 at the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater. Neil Pepe directs.

Adapted from Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide, Dying For It follows Semyon (Slotnick), a man down on his luck and married to a nag. When he decides to throw in the towel and kill himself, a deluge of sympathetic visitors descends upon him, determined to make him a martyr for their many causes. The play satirizes the hypocrisy and illogic of Soviet life and was banned by Stalin before ever hitting the stage.

In addition to Slotnick, the cast of Dying For It includes Mia Barron, Ben Beckley, Nathan Dame, Patch Darragh, Clea Lewis, Peter Maloney Andrew Mayer, Mary Beth Peil, Jeanine Serralles, Robert Stanton and C.J. Wilson.