Nick Hern Books, 2000

Drama Classics

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (16), Female (7), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Maxim Gorky's play Children of the Sun is a Chekhovian family drama, written while its author was briefly imprisoned in Saint Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress during the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905. It was initially banned...

Faber and Faber, 2013

Faber Drama

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (16), Female (7), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Protasov, detached and idealistic, wants only to immerse himself in chemical experiments to perfect mankind. He’s more or less oblivious to the voracious advances of the half-crazed widow Melaniya and his best friend’s unrelenting pursuit...

Faber and Faber, 2006

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (24), Female (5), Male (19), Unassigned (0)

...1905. Russia is at a turning point. Zakhar Bardin is from the landowning class, but is now the uneasy owner of a factory. His managing director is determined to face down militant workers on a point of principle. But the shutting...

Faber and Faber, 2007

Faber Drama

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (13), Female (6), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Sung at a funeral and a wedding today. The full gamut of the human experience from the ridiculous to the utterly pointless. A restless bunch of young radicals hang out, have sex, dance, drink, moan...

Nick Hern Books, 2019

NHB Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (10), Female (6), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Mike Bartlett's Vassa is an adaptation of Maxim Gorky's 1910 play Vassa Zheleznova. It was first performed at the Almeida Theatre, London, on 21 October 2019 (previews from 9 October).   The play is set, according...