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Author As told to Maxim Gorky Chaliapin & Maxim Gorky - HARDBACK
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Gorky Plays 1 - The Lower Depths & Summerfolk & Children of the Sun & Barbarians & Enemies
This volume includes Gorky’s major works for the theatre ... The Lower Depths, first staged by the Moscow Art theatre in 1902, portrays a cast of down and outs living in the underbelly of Russian…
Gorky Plays 2 - The Last Ones & Vassa Zheleznova & The Zykovs & Egor Bulychev
Four key new translations of plays (including three previously unpublished works) written at the turn of the 20th century, charting the descent of Russia into revolution Hailed by Chekhov as the voice…
Children of the Sun
This family drama, first staged in Russia in 1905, prophetically anticipates the coming revolution, lookng at the lives of the privileged intelligentsia and of the workers and advocating an alliance between…
Summerfolk
In Nick Dear’s version of Gorky’s naturalistic masterpiece a diverse group of Russians meet, as they do every year, at their summer holiday retreat. Some are frightened at the prospect of change,…
Philistines
8 Male, 7 Female
Gorky’s first stage play, Meschanye, was originally presented at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1902. The story centres around a prosperous house painter and his two sons, and because of its ‘progressive’…
Vassa Zheleznova
4 Male, 6 Female
Vassa Zheleznova is a woman of iron will and a powerful matriarch. Her tragedy, however, is to see her family destroyed by the very bourgeois values that she seeks to preserve. Tania Alexander and Tim…
