by Barrie Keeffe
A One-Act PlayAn
Oleg Tabakov Theater Production
Opened on August 9, 1980
Directed by
Oleg Tabakov and Konstantin Raikin
Appeared as
The KidThe British play Gotcha is about the issues of youth – lack of understanding, loneliness, and a desperate attempt to solve the problem. In it, a teenager holds hostage two teachers and the principal of his school, threatening to drop a burning cigarette into the engine of his motorcycle and blow everyone up – himself included. The part of the Kid was Yevgeny Mironov's first lead onstage. His teacher Oleg Tabakov has said, "What he does in Gotcha is amazing – a lonely, unloved boy at the end of his rope..."
(No longer in repertory)