Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> Russian & Former Soviet Union

The Lady from the Sea (1888) marked a turning point in Ibsen's career as it, and the plays that followed it, concerned itself more with individual destinies than with general moral or social priniciples. In this new translation, Pam Gems (best known for plays such as Piaf, Stanley and Marlene) gives the drama a refreshing new life.

Lenin in Love depicts the sexual and sadistic inclinations of one of the twentieth century's foremost political leaders. The Teddy Bears' Picnic shows Stalin playing relaxed host in his country retreat. The Potsdam Quartet features four embittered musicians hired to entertain Stalin, Truman, Atlee and Churchill as they divide up the world.

A mysterious stranger and his retinue have astonished the locals of Stalin's Moscow with the magic show to end all magic shows and have quite literally set the town alight. But what's the real purpose behind their visit?

A luminous new version of Chekhov's magnificent tragicomedy about the three Prozorov girls and their rapacious sister-in-law. Author of the award-winning Vincent in Brixton, Wright has also produced English version of such classics as Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman, Pirandello's Naked and Wedekind's Lulu.

A funny, vibrant and moving version of Chekhov's Three Sisters, set amongst the Jewish community in wartime Liverpool. From the award-winning writer Diane Samuels (Kindertransport) and well-known actress and writer Tracy-Ann Oberman.

Liverpool, 1946. A year after the sudden death of their father, sisters Gertie, May and Rita Lasky share their once grand home on Hope Street with their asthmatic brother Arnold, Auntie Biel (who still keeps her packed suitcase under the spare bed) and old family friend Dr Nate Weinberg (who claims, hand on heart, to be on the...

This volume offers lively and accurate translations of Chekhov's major plays and one-acts (complete contents listed below) along with a superb Introduction focused on the plays' remarkably enduring power to elicit the most widely divergent of responses, the life of the playwright in its historical and aesthetic contexts, suggestions for reading the plays under a microscope, and notes designed to bring Chekhov's world into immediate focus--everything needed to examine his drama with fresh eyes and on its own artistic terms.

This volume offers lively and accurate translations of Chekhov's major plays and one-acts (complete contents listed below) along with a superb Introduction focused on the plays' remarkably enduring power to elicit the most widely divergent of responses, the life of the playwright in its historical and aesthetic contexts, suggestions for reading the plays under a microscope, and notes designed to bring Chekhov's world into immediate focus--everything needed to examine his drama with fresh eyes and on its own artistic terms.

Unabridged English value reproduction of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. This wonderfully complex drama of hopes, dreams, and love, has characters that resonate with readers in different ways reading after reading. 

One of the first plays to pioneer impressionistic realism, this beautifully blended tragic drama is provided to the reader in a slim volume with the full text at an affordable price.

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation.

When it opened in St Petersburg in 1896, The Seagull survived only five performances after a disastrous first night. Two years later it was revived by Nemirovich-Danchenko at the newly-founded Moscow Art Theatre with Stanslasky as Trigorin and was an immediate success. Checkhov's description of the play was characteristically self-mocking: "A comedy - 3F, 6M, four acts, rural scenery (a view over a lake); much talk of literature, little action, five bushels of love."
Michael Frayn's...

In postrevolutionary Russia, as the Soviet government pursued rapid industrialization, avant-garde artists declared their intent to serve the nascent state and to transform life in accordance with their aesthetic designs. Despite their utilitarian intentions, however, most avant-gardists rarely created works regarded as practical instruments of societal transformation. Exploring this paradox, Vaingurt claims that the artists' fusion of technology and aesthetics prevented...