Candle in the Wind
Alexander Solzenitsyn
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Plays by Nation - Russian Plays
Stars in the Morning Sky - USA & CANADA ONLY
Alexander Galin trans Elise Thoron
Dramatic Publishing
2 Male 5 Female
Referring to the standing ovation given to the premiere of this play in England, the Financial Times critic said, "There was no other possible response. Galin's play is a new Lower Depths" The play is conce...
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The Life of Man
Leonidas Andreiev
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Published 1915 - trans C J Hogarth - rare
$49.99
The Theatre of the Soul - A Monodrama (sic) in One Act
N. Evreinof trans Marie Potapenko & Christopher St. John - 1926
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$35
The Seagull - A New Version
Anton Chekhov trans/adapted Christopher Hampton
Dramatists Play Service
8 Male 5 Female
The Seagull is one of the great plays about writing It superbly captures the struggle for new forms, the frustrations and fulfillments of putting words on a page In this, his first major play, Chekhov st...
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Four Russian Plays - The Infant & Chatsky & The Inspector & Thunder
Fonvizin & Griboyedov & Gogol & Ostrovsky trans Joshua Cooper
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Platonov
Anton Chekhov adapted by David Hare
Faber & Faber
5 Female
In 1997, David Hare adapted the little-known play, Ivanov, and revealed the young Anton Chekhov as a markedly different writer from the one English-speaking audiences recognize from the more familiar plays. ...
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Orchards - Seven Adaptations of Chekhov Short Stories
Adapted from Anton Chekhov
Broadway Play Publishing
"Take seven contemporary American playwrights with highly distinctive voices and wildly differing approaches to the theater. Ask each to adapt one of Anton Chekhov's short stories, which range in mood from t...
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My Life in the Russian Theatre
Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantchenko
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Translated by John Cournos - First English Edition 1937
$55
Four Plays - The Storm & Too Clever by Half & Crazy Money & Innocent as Charged
Alexander Ostrovsky - trans/adapted Stephen Mulrine
Oberon
Ostrovsky (1823-86) paved the way for twentieth-century stage realism in Russia These plays are populated by characters that reveal Ostrovsky's talent for well-turned idiomatic phrases and his acute observat...
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Philistines
Maxim Gorky adapted Dusty Hughes
AmberLane Press
8 Male 7 Female
Gorky's first stage play, Meschanye, was originally presented at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1902. The story centres around a prosperous house painter and his two sons, and because of its 'progressive' tone th...
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Alexandra Danilova - A Biography
A E Twysden
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Distant Point
Afinogenev trans Hubert Griffith - published 1941
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Sarcophagus
Vladimir Gubaryev trans Michael Glenny
Samuel French Ltd
6 Female
A moving play following the one-way journey in a terminal radiation clinic of the victims of the explosion at the Chenobyl nuclear power station. The arrival of nine survivors starts a string of confessions ...
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Stanislavski's Legacy - A Collection of Comments on a Variety of Aspects of an Actor's Life & Art
Constantin Stanislavski trans Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood
Methuen
** 20% DISCOUNT ** No one has had a greater influence on acting as we know it than Stanislavski. His "method" - or interpretations of it - has become the central force determining almost every performan...
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Ostrovsky Plays 2 - The Forest & Artistes and Admirers & Wolves and Sheep & Sin and Sorrow
Alexander Ostrovsky trans Stephen Mulrine
Oberon
The Forest (1871), has two young lovers in thrall to their tyrannical elders, who are prevented from marrying until a pair of strolling actors come to their rescue In Artistes and Admirers (1881), a come...
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The Bedbug
Vladimir Mayakovsky trans Max Hayward
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Bulgakov Six Plays - The White Guard & Madame Zoyka & Flight & Moliere & Adam and Eve & More
Mikhail Bulgakov trans Michael Glenny et al intro Lesley Milne
Methuen
Mikhail Bulgakov was one of the Soviet Union's finest playwrights, whose work was often at odds with the Soviet State This volume brings together his major dramatic achievements,including The White Guard, Ma...
$25.99
The Parasol
Frank Dunai from Chekhov's novel Three Years
AmberLane Press
8 Male 2 Female
That this stage adaptation of a Chekhov novel should read and play as if written by the master himself is a significant achievement, and the fact that the novel's insightful portrayal of fin-de-siecle bourge...
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Ivanov
Anton Chekhov adapted David Hare
Methuen
4 Female
This is a drama of a Russian landowner's half-farcical, half serious personal crisis as he plummets fast into domestic and philosophical chaos The central scene concerns a debate between the landowner and t...
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