Three Soviet Plays
Pogodin & Korneichuk & Arbuzov trans Rose Prokofieva & Asya Shoett
Used Copy
Library of Soviet Literature - Includes Kremlin Chimes & Platon Krechey & It Happened in Irkutsk
$35
Plays by Nation - Russian Plays
Gorky Plays 2 - The Last Ones & Vassa Zheleznova & The Zykovs & Egor Bulychev
Maxim Gorky
Methuen
Four key new translations of plays (including three previously unpublished works) written at the turn of the 20th century, charting the descent of Russia into revolution Hailed by Chekhov as the voice of hi...
$28.99
Ivanov
Anton Chekhov adapted Ronald Harwood
AmberLane Press
6 Male 5 Female
Ivanov was Anton Chekhov's first full-length play. When it was premiered in Moscow in 1887 it was given a mixed reception but a revised version presented in St. Petersburg in 1889, was triumphantly received ...
$16.99
The Free State - A South African Response to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
Janet Suzman from Chekhov
Methuen
A stirring new version of The Cherry Orchard set in post-apartheid South Africa This powerful version of Chekhov's famous drama of disillusionment is set in rural South Africa on a farm producing cherry...
$15.99
Old-World
Aleksei Arbuzov trans Ariadne Nicolaeff
Samuel French Ltd
1 Male 1 Female
Rodion is medical head of a sanitorium where Lydia is a patient suffering from arteriosclerosis. They meet following complaints that Lydia recites poetry through the night and sings at dawn. The play follows...
$12.99
Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov trans Samuel Adamson
Samuel French Ltd
9 Male 5 Female
The Prozorov sisters, Olga, Masha and Irina, dream of freedom, sex, romance and Moscow Two figures appear in their lives Vershinin, the new battery commander, has hopes of a better future for mankind Nata...
$12.99
The Cherry Orchard - A New Version
David Lan from Anton Chekhov
Methuen
9 Male 5 Female
$15.99
Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov adapt David Mamet from a translation by Vlada Chernomirdik
Samuel French Inc
5 Male 4 Female
A stylish new adaptation of Chekhov's deeply human story of the relationship between a young woman, her uncle who is in love with her and the doctor who is nursing her dying husband with whom she is in loveT...
$10.99
The Blind Beauty
Boris Pasternak
Used Copy
First Edition - pub 1969
$22.99
Moscow Art Theatre Plays - Second Series
Various
Used Copy
Includes The Brothers Karamazoff & Mistress of the Inn & Enemy of the People & Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man ~ Dostoievsky & Goldoni & Ibsen & Ostrovsky - ex lib - pub 1924
$29.99
The Government Inspector / Methuen STUDENT EDITION with Notes & Commentary
Methuen STUDENT EDITION with Notes & Commentary
Widely held to have led the realist revolution in Russian drama, Gogol liberated comedy from a tradition of didacticism and sentimentality The Government Inspector, Gogol's masterpiece, was regarded by Vlad...
$14.99
Plays by Anton Chekhov - The Wood Demon & The Seagull & Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov adapt Richard Nelson
Broadway Play Publishing
Chekhov on The Wood Demon ... "In the play I portray a disgusting, selfish, provincial fellow who for twenty years has been reading works on art but understanding nothing about the subject - a man who ...
$19.99
Heart of a Dog
Frank Galati from Mikhail Bulgakov
Dramatists Play Service
9 Male 5 Female
An up-to-date, highly theatrical, and very funny adaptation of Bulgakov's classic satire about the problems faced by modern Russian society in its attempts to turn the peasantry and the proletariat into t...
$13
Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch
Alexei Tolstoy trans Jenny Covan
Used Copy
Pub 1922
$35
Faust and the City and Other Plays
A V Lunacharski
Used Copy
Includes The Magi & Vasila the Wise - trans Magnus & Walter - published 1923 - very rare
$24.99
Yury Olesha - The Complete Plays
Yury Olesha edited & trans Michael Green & Jerome Katsell
Used Copy
$37.99
A Month in the Country
Ivan Turgenev adapted Emlyn Williams
Samuel French Inc
8 Male 5 Female
A bored wife living in the Russian countryside falls in love with her little boy's handsome new tutor - just like all of the women in the household The wife's chief rival turns out to be her 17 year old w...
$10.99
The Government Inspector & Marriage & The Gamblers Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
Methuen
This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely st...
$28.99
Vassa Zheleznova
Maxim Gorky trans Tania Alexander & Tim Suter
AmberLane Press
4 Male 6 Female
Vassa Zheleznova is a woman of iron will and a powerful matriarch. Her tragedy, however, is to see her family destroyed by the very bourgeois values that she seeks to preserve. Tania Alexander and Tim Suter'...
$16.99
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...
$9.99