The Blind Beauty
Boris Pasternak
Used Copy
First Edition - pub 1969
$22.99
Plays by Nation - Russian Plays
The Free State - A South African Response to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
Janet Suzman from Chekhov
Methuen
A stirring new version of The Cherry Orchard set in post-apartheid South Africa This powerful version of Chekhov's famous drama of disillusionment is set in rural South Africa on a farm producing cherry...
$15.99
The Suicide
Nikolai Erdman adapted Richard Nelson
Broadway Play Publishing
6 Female
"More than a half a century ago, Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman came up with a comic cure for political headaches: THE SUICIDE. It gave Joseph Stalin a pain and Erdman got twenty years in a Siberian w...
$12.99
Heart of a Dog
Frank Galati from Mikhail Bulgakov
Dramatists Play Service
9 Male 5 Female
An up-to-date, highly theatrical, and very funny adaptation of Bulgakov's classic satire about the problems faced by modern Russian society in its attempts to turn the peasantry and the proletariat into t...
$13
The Cherry Orchard - A New Version
David Lan from Anton Chekhov
Methuen
9 Male 5 Female
$15.99
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
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
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
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 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
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