Нос (The Nose, 1993)

As the department’s drama specialist, Cynthia Marsh taught on the Faculty of Arts drama course in the early 1990s. This programme was open to any student in the faculty and was run as a collaborative effort by staff from different departments, enabling students to study drama from a range of different cultures. Having run a masks workshop as part of her contribution, Cynthia decided to experiment with masks in the department’s production of Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose in 1993.

The Nose tells the story of the mid-ranking civil Servant Kovalev, who wakes up one morning to discover that his nose has disappeared from his face. It has begun to establish a life of its own, wearing the uniform of a more senior civil servant.

Top left: Jenny Hudson as the Doctor.

Top right: Judith Gough (presently the UK Ambassador to Ukraine) controls the lighting for the production.

Bottom left: Hazel Rodrigues narrates part of the story.

Bottom right: Cast members of The Nose in performance. Hazel Rodrigues as the Newspaper Advertisement Clerk and Richard Barley as Kovalev in the foreground.