The Battle of the Sexes Russian Style

ISBN-13: 9781782670827 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 266 str.

Nadezhda Ptushkina

Opis

Nadezhda Ptushkinas plays reflect her keen interest in constructing multidimensional characters that reflect the myriad ways people are affected by todays turbulent world. Often writing strong female roles, she does not shy away from exploring the sometimes tragic implications that lie behind her comical, almost farcical scenes. Ptushkina questions the nature of love, and explores the boundaries between the spiritual and the base, the constructive and the destructive, that lie within every human being. Conflict between the sexes constitutes the core of Ptushkinas plays, in which she warns the audience against confusing sex and love. Ptushkina rejects any notion that men and women are the same, seeing gender differences rather than personality differences as the main source of tension between men and women. Her plays thus dwell on this battle of the sexes and the resulting lack of respect for women that she sees in todays Russia.In this new translation, western readers have a chance to discover why Ptushkinas work holds such wide appeal in the Russian theatre.