Plays by Nation - Russian Plays

The Seagull

Anton Chekhov trans David Iliffe

Samuel French Ltd

7 Male 6 Female

Chekhov's famous tragi-comedy is done justice in this stylish translation where amid 'the weariness of life in the country' the actress Arkadina presides over a house riven with desperate love and dread of f...

$12.99

Alexander Ostrovsky - Four Plays

Alexander Ostrovsky

Used Copy

Includes Poverty is no Crime & The Storm & Even the Wise Can Err & More Sinned Against Than Sinning - with d/j

$35

The Mandate

Nikolai Erdman adapted Declan Donnellan

Nick Hern Books

A new version of the chillingly grotesque Soviet farce, in a new translation by Declan Donnellan, as premiered at the National Theatre ... Moscow 1924, the early days of the Soviet Union. Communism is e...

$16.99

The Suicide

Nikolai Erdman adapted Richard Nelson

Broadway Play Publishing

6 Female

"More than a half a century ago, Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman came up with a comic cure for political headaches: THE SUICIDE. It gave Joseph Stalin a pain and Erdman got twenty years in a Siberian w...

$12.99

The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov adapted David Mamet

Samuel French Inc

9 Male 5 Female

This translation of Chekhov's last and most elusive play captures the essence of the strong story about the beautiful trees of one proud landowner family and the need to sacrifice them to development to ...

$10.99

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

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Four key new translations of plays (including three previously unpublished works) written at the turn of the 20th century, charting the descent of Russia into revolution Hailed by Chekhov as the voice of hi...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

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

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