Amid the breathtaking isolation of the Caucasus Mountains during the 2000 Second Russian-Chechen War, a quirky group of characters converge at the peculiar “Dreamland of Mountains” hotel. While the distant sound of warfare echoes, the guests and owners engage in a thrilling game of secrets, suspicions, and absurdity. This darkly comedic play blends humor, suspense, and human folly as betrayal and loyalty collide unexpectedly. With a richly layered narrative and unforgettable characters, Dancing with the Dead is an immersive journey into the resilience of human nature, where laughter and intrigue thrive even in the shadow of war.
Mikho Mosulishvili was born in 1962. He is a writer and playwright who graduated from Tbilisi State University’s geography-geology faculty in 1986. From 1981 to 1984 as a special second subject, film drama in the university’s faculty.
After 1986 he worked as a geologist in Georgia’s geographic-geophysical field teams and then as a newspaper journalist. For several years he translated art films from English to Georgian for various television companies.
He has published twenty-three novels, stories, plays, and translations. Twenty performances based on his plays in various Georgian theatres, as well as television and radio. He is co-author of the television serial Night of Small Stars (Georgian Television, Channel One, 1999).
His works have been translated into Japanese, Latvian, English, German, Russian and Armenian.
Mikho Mosulishvili awarded the Honor Medal by the government of Georgia in 1998, and in 2024, he received the Saguramo Prize from the Ilia Chavchavadze Saguramo State Museum for his complete body of work in the Prose category.
"As it seems to me, the writer's skill lies not only in writing but also in removing everything unessential." - the motto by Mikho Mosulishvili.