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Author_Ludmila Petrushevskaya
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Product details
- ISBN 9781854598127
- Weight: 77g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 05 May 2004
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Two linked plays from the Russian playwright dubbed the 'female Chekhov', depicting the grim reality of domestic life in Soviet Russia, in English translations by Stephen Mulrine.
In Cinzano, three young men drink themselves into a stupor to escape their drab lives and family responsibilities.
Ludmila Petrushevskaya's play Cinzano was first staged in this translation at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in November 1989.
In the companion piece, Smirnova's Birthday, the men's girlfriends meet up at a birthday celebration.
Stephen Mulrine (1937–2020) was a Glasgow-born poet and playwright who wrote extensively for radio and television, and published many translations, including English translations of plays in Russian by Chekhov, Gogol and Gorky, as well as translations of plays by Ibsen, Molière, Pirandello, Strindberg and others.
