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Author_Nikolai Erdman
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Dear Comrades
Duck
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Eternal Memory
False Dmitry
Follow
God's Sake
Gun Powder
Hated Men
Hurdy Gurdy Man
Ivan Ivanovich
lord
Lord Almighty
Mademoiselle
Man
mass culture critique
mind
out
plant
Pug
Royal Highness
rubber
Russian avant-garde drama
Russian Intelligentsia
Scrub Brush
Shooting Gallery
Soviet theatre history
Soviet-era playwriting study
Spitting Image
Sturgeon
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tooth
tragicomedy analysis
twentieth-century Russian society
Wo
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9783718655830
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 1995
- Publisher: Harwood-Academic Publishers
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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First Published in 1995. Russian Theatre Archive- Volume 1. Newly translated by John Freedman, Erdmans's first biographer, Nikola Erdman's two classic tragicomedies, 'The Warrant' and 'The Suicide', come to life as brilliant, eccentric and eminently performable works for the theatre as well as fascinating documents of the theatrical boom and social upheaval that took place in Russia in the 1920s. Both plays were written expressly for the great Vsevolod Meyerhold, who declared that Erdman was the heir to the rich Russian comic dramatic tradition established by Nikolai Gogol and Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin. Meyerhold's staging of The Warrant in 1925 was one of the most innovative and successful. His attempt to stage The Suicide in 1932 eas banned by Stalin. After being exiled to Siberia in 1933, Erdman never again wrote a full-length play. But, in The Warrant and The Suicide, Erdman's themes- the failure of language as a reliable tool of communication, the degeneration of the human element brought on by the onslaught of mass culture, and the extraordinary, if not always heroic, resilience of the individual human being- remain as contemporary and universal as ever.
