Марья Лусьева за границей (Mary Luseva abroad)
by and Alexander Amfiteatrov
- (Anton-Goremyka)
by Дмитрий B and Dmitry Grigorovich
From the book:The scene is laid in the park on SORIN'S estate. A broad avenue of trees leads away from the audience toward a lake which lies lost in the depths of the park. The avenue is obstructed by a rough stage, temporarily erected for the performance of amateur theatricals, and which screens the lake from view. There is a dense growth of bushes to the left and right of the stage. A few chairs and a little table are placed in front of the stage. The sun has just set. JACOB and some other wor...
From the fall of 1947 through the summer of 1951 composer Igor Stravinsky and poet W. H. Auden collaborated on the opera The Rake's Progress. At the time, their self-consciously conventional work seemed to appeal only to conservative audiences. Few perceived that Stravinsky and Auden were confronting the central crisis of the Modern age, for their story of a hapless eighteenth-century Everyman dramatizes the very limits of human will, a theme Auden insists underlies all opera. In The Last Oper...
Russia's Theatrical Past (Russian Music Studies)
by Claudia R Jensen, Ingrid Maier, Stepan Shamin, and Daniel C. Waugh
In the 17th century, only Moscow's elite had access to the magical, vibrant world of the theater. In Russia's Theatrical Past, Claudia Jensen, Ingrid Maier, Stepan Shamin, and Daniel C. Waugh mine Russian and Western archival sources to document the history of these productions as they developed at the court of the Russian tsar. Using such sources as European newspapers, diplomats' reports, foreign travel accounts, witness accounts, and payment records, they also uncover unique aspects of local...
The Steps of Nemesis – A Dramatic Chronicle in Six Scenes from Party Life in the USSR (1936–1938) (Think Art)
by Nikolai Evreinov
The first-ever English translation of this dramatic work by Nikolai Evreinov. In the 1910s the Russian theater director and theorist Nikolai Evreinov (1879–1953) insisted on the theatricalization of life. Twenty years later, Evreinov, who had left Russia in 1924, was in exile in Paris when Stalin staged three elaborate political show trials in Moscow. Evreinov then meticulously read the transcripts of the trials in the Russian-language press, collected material on Nikolai Bukharin and the othe...
The First Distiller (Annotated)
by Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910
'And So Ad Infinitum' (the Life of the Insects) - An Entomological Review, in Three Acts a Prologue and an Epilogue
by The Brothers Capek
Райна, королевна Болгарская (Raina, Bulgarian princess)
by and Alexander Veltman