Plays by Nation - Russian Plays

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...

$21.99

Squaring the Circle

Valentine Kataev trans Eugene Lyons & Charles Malamuth

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 5 Female

$10.99

Distant Point

Afinogenev trans Hubert Griffith - published 1941

Used Copy

$23.99

Ivanov

Anton Chekhov trans by Paul Schmidt

Dramatists Play Service

5 Female

Ivanov, a landowner who farms a large estate, is in debt, and his wife, whom he no longer loves, is dying of tuberculosis. He owes money everywhere and has reached the point of despair The love of Sasha,...

$13

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...

$14.99

The Government Inspector

Nikolai Gogol trans Stephen Mulrine

Nick Hern Books

This is a Drama Classics budget edition

$7.99

M Gorky - Five Plays

Maxim Gorky trans Margaret Wettlin

Used Copy

Includes The Petty Bourgeois & The Lower Depths & Summer Folk (Scenes) & Enemies (Scenes) & Old Man - includes dozens of Moscow Arts production photographs circa 1902-20

$49.99

The Seagull

Anton Chekhov trans Peter Gill

Oberon

7 Male 6 Female

Chekhov's great play, written in 1896, bursts into the 21st century with the burdens of the past bearing witness to the freedoms of the future This version of The Seagull was commissioned by the RSC

$14.99

Czar Feodor Ioannovitch - a drama in verse by Alexis K Tolstoi

C Nabokoff

Used Copy

Published 1924 - trans Alfred Hayes with preface

$18.99

The Bedbug

Vladimir Mayakovsky trans Max Hayward

Used Copy

$19.99

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 Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov trans Stark Young

Samuel French Inc

9 Male 5 Female

$10.99

The Seagull - STUDENT EDITION with Notes Notes & Commentary

Anton Chekhov trans Michael Frayn

Methuen

7 Male 6 Female

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play

$15.99

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...

$21.99

The Suicide

Nikolai Erdman trans Peter Tegel

Samuel French Inc

5 Female

A brilliant and penetrating satire about an unemployed man who contemplates suicide and is besieged by spokespeople of discontented groups, from butchers to intellectuals, who want him to turn his suicide in...

$10.99

A Month in the Country

Ivan Turgenev trans Ariadne Nicolaeff

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 5 Female

The place is the country estate of the Islayevs, a wealthy Russian family, the time the middle of the nineteenth century It is summer, and the lives of the family and their entourage reflect the bored in...

$13

Boris Godunov - The Little Tragedies - The Miserly Knight & Mozart and Salieri & The Stone Guest & A Feast in Time of Plague

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin trans Stephen Mulrine

Oberon

Boris Godunov recounts the tragic conflict between Tsar Boris and the pretender Dimitri. Following the death of Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov became regent for the feeble-minded Tsar Fyodor, the heir t...

$14.99

Too Clever By Half or The Diary of a Scoundrel

Alexander Ostrovsky - an English version by Rodney Ackland

Used Copy

$19.99

The Sneeze - Plays and Stories

Anton Chekhov adapt Michael Frayn

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Michael Frayn's translations of the best of Chekhov's short stories and short plays marry the expertise of the translator with the innate understanding of a master dramatist and are widely regarded as the tr...

$10.99

Black Snow

Mikhail Bulgakov adapted Keith Reddin

Dramatists Play Service

4 Female

Winner of the Joseph Jefferson award for Best Play - a writer's dream turns into a nightmare as Sergei Maxudov's novel is finally going to be presented as a play at the Theatre of Moscow, and the rehearsal...

$13