The Death of Tarelkin and Other Plays

The Death of Tarelkin and Other Plays

Author: Александр Сухово-Кобылин

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9783718656943

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Sukhovo-Kobylin's "Trilogy - Krechinshy's Wedding, The Case"and "The Death of Tarelkin" represent the sole literary legacy of their aristocratic author whose involvement in a sensational murder case became one of the great scandals of mid-19th century Russian society. Out of the drama of his own life, Sukhovo-Kobylin fashioned a trilogy of plays remarkable for the acidity of their satire against the tsarist bureaucracy and police. It is not only for their pungent satire that the plays have continued to attract attention ever since. They are, above all, splendidly theatrical and encompass not one but several different traditions of theatre from the "well-made play" of Scribe to the absurd comedy of Gogol. "As for sheer stagecraft," writes Price D.S. Mirsky in his "A History of Russian Literature," "they have no rivals in Russian literary drama." Harold B. Segel is Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. He is the author of ten books and numer


Two Plays

Two Plays

Author: Olga Mukhina

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9789057550799

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Olga Mukhina is one of the most talented, young playwrights in Russia. Born in Moscow in 1970, she has already garnered enviable praise from critics and audiences throughout Russia and Europe since her first play, Tanya-Tanya, was performed in 1996. Tanya-Tanyais an atmospheric, poetic tale that observes three couples at a suburban Moscow home who dance, drink champagne, kiss, fall in and out of love, and struggle with dignity and humor to keep some semblance of control over their lives. The parallels with Chekhovian drama are undeniable and clearly intended by the author. You, Mukhina's most recent work, is a love poem to her hometown of Moscow as well as a scathing attack on the apathy of people blindly wrapped up in their own happiness and sorrow.


Two Plays by Olga Mukhina

Two Plays by Olga Mukhina

Author: John Freedman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-31

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1135293325

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Olga Mukhina is one of the most talented, young playwrights in Russia. Born in Moscow in 1970, she has already garnered enviable praise from critics and audiences throughout Russia and Europe since her first play, Tanya-Tanya, was performed in 1996. Tanya-Tanya is an atmospheric, poetic tale that observes three couples at a suburban Moscow home who dance, drink champagne, kiss, fall in and out of love, and struggle with dignity and humor to keep some semblance of control over their lives. The parallels with Chekhovian drama are undeniable and clearly intended by the author. You, Mukhina's most recent work, is a love poem to her hometown of Moscow as well as a scathing attack on the apathy of people blindly wrapped up in their own happiness and sorrow.


The Major Plays

The Major Plays

Author: Aleksandr Vampilov

Publisher: Taylor & Francis US

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9783718655854

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Aleksandr Vampilov: The Major Plays

Aleksandr Vampilov: The Major Plays

Author: Alma Law

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 113436038X

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First Published in 1996. The Russian Theatre Archive makes available in English the best avant-garde plays from the pre-Revolutionary period to the present day. It features monographs on major playwrights and theatre directors, introductions to previously unknown works, and studies of the main artistic groups and periods. Plays are presented in performing edition translations, including (where appropriate) musical scores, and instructions for music and dance. Whenever possible the translated texts will be accompanied by videotapes of performances of plays in the original language.


The Major Plays of Nikolai Erdman

The Major Plays of Nikolai Erdman

Author: Nikolai Erdman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-04

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 113436010X

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First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Russian Mirror

Russian Mirror

Author: Melissa T. Smith

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9789057550249

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Three playwrights are presented together in this volume On the Road to Ourselves, Elena Gremina Behind the Mirror and Olga Mikhailova Russian Dream.


Off Nevsky Prospekt

Off Nevsky Prospekt

Author: Elena Viktorovna Markova

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9789057021350

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Off Nevsky Prospekt is the first study to be published in English of the exceptionally rich and diverse theatre studio movement which has flourished in St Petersburg during the 1980s and '90s. Professor Markova charts the development of the theatre studios - from their beginnings as a reaction to the repressive atmosphere of the Soviet period and through the "theatre bacchanalia" of the Perestroika years. She then surveys today's vibrant scene, with analyses of key productions and interviews with many of the central figures, and describes how theatre studios have subverted the conventions of the past to create a new dialogue with the changing society from which their audience is drawn.


A Chekhov Quartet

A Chekhov Quartet

Author: Vera Gottlieb

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 1134369905

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First Published in 1996. Translated from Chekhov's short plays and adapted from his stories by Vera Gottlieb, this collection consists of four one-act plays. Short though they are, each contains a whole range of dramatic possibilities and presented together the plays form a coherent programme, offering performers and audiences an intimate theatrical experience ranging from high comedy to sombre analysis. Both student and professional actors will find an opportunity to display all their powers of invention, characterisation, timing, audience control, concentration and finesse. A Chekhov Quartet has been performed in London, Moscow and at the 1990 Chekhov Festival in Yalta