The Cherry Orchard - A New Version
David Lan from Anton Chekhov
Methuen
9 Male 5 Female
$15.99
Plays by Nation - Russian Plays
Three Soviet Plays
Pogodin & Korneichuk & Arbuzov trans Rose Prokofieva & Asya Shoett
Used Copy
Library of Soviet Literature - Includes Kremlin Chimes & Platon Krechey & It Happened in Irkutsk
$35
The Government Inspector & Marriage & The Gamblers Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
Methuen
This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely st...
$28.99
Ivanov
Anton Chekhov adapted Ronald Harwood
AmberLane Press
6 Male 5 Female
Ivanov was Anton Chekhov's first full-length play. When it was premiered in Moscow in 1887 it was given a mixed reception but a revised version presented in St. Petersburg in 1889, was triumphantly received ...
$16.99
The Seagull
Anton Chekhov trans David Iliffe
Samuel French Ltd
7 Male 6 Female
Chekhov's famous tragi-comedy is done justice in this stylish translation where amid 'the weariness of life in the country' the actress Arkadina presides over a house riven with desperate love and dread of f...
$12.99
Moscow Art Theatre Plays - Second Series
Various
Used Copy
Includes The Brothers Karamazoff & Mistress of the Inn & Enemy of the People & Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man ~ Dostoievsky & Goldoni & Ibsen & Ostrovsky - ex lib - pub 1924
$29.99
The Government Inspector / Methuen STUDENT EDITION with Notes & Commentary
Methuen STUDENT EDITION with Notes & Commentary
Widely held to have led the realist revolution in Russian drama, Gogol liberated comedy from a tradition of didacticism and sentimentality The Government Inspector, Gogol's masterpiece, was regarded by Vlad...
$14.99
Old-World
Aleksei Arbuzov trans Ariadne Nicolaeff
Samuel French Ltd
1 Male 1 Female
Rodion is medical head of a sanitorium where Lydia is a patient suffering from arteriosclerosis. They meet following complaints that Lydia recites poetry through the night and sings at dawn. The play follows...
$12.99
Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov adapt David Mamet from a translation by Vlada Chernomirdik
Samuel French Inc
5 Male 4 Female
A stylish new adaptation of Chekhov's deeply human story of the relationship between a young woman, her uncle who is in love with her and the doctor who is nursing her dying husband with whom she is in loveT...
$10.99
Faust and the City and Other Plays
A V Lunacharski
Used Copy
Includes The Magi & Vasila the Wise - trans Magnus & Walter - published 1923 - very rare
$24.99
Plays by Anton Chekhov - The Wood Demon & The Seagull & Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov adapt Richard Nelson
Broadway Play Publishing
Chekhov on The Wood Demon ... "In the play I portray a disgusting, selfish, provincial fellow who for twenty years has been reading works on art but understanding nothing about the subject - a man who ...
$19.99
Yury Olesha - The Complete Plays
Yury Olesha edited & trans Michael Green & Jerome Katsell
Used Copy
$37.99
Vassa Zheleznova
Maxim Gorky trans Tania Alexander & Tim Suter
AmberLane Press
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 Suter'...
$16.99
The Death of Ivan the Terrible
Alexis K Tolstoy
Used Copy
Published 1926 - trans Alfred Hayes - with Preface by Nabokoff
$49.99
Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch
Alexei Tolstoy trans Jenny Covan
Used Copy
Pub 1922
$35
M Gorky - Plays - The Lower Depths & Enemies - First English Edition 1968
Maxim Gorky trans Margaret Wettlin et al
Used Copy
$27.99
A Month in the Country
Ivan Turgenev adapted Emlyn Williams
Samuel French Inc
8 Male 5 Female
A bored wife living in the Russian countryside falls in love with her little boy's handsome new tutor - just like all of the women in the household The wife's chief rival turns out to be her 17 year old w...
$10.99
Candle in the Wind
Alexander Solzenitsyn
Used Copy
$19.99
The Life of Man
Leonidas Andreiev
Used Copy
Published 1915 - trans C J Hogarth - rare
$49.99
Stars in the Morning Sky - USA & CANADA ONLY
Alexander Galin trans Elise Thoron
Dramatic Publishing
2 Male 5 Female
Referring to the standing ovation given to the premiere of this play in England, the Financial Times critic said, "There was no other possible response. Galin's play is a new Lower Depths" The play is conce...
$9.99