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VALENTIN KRASNOGOROV (1934 - ) |
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Nationality: Russian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Valentin Krasnogorov is a veteran Russian playwright. He has displayed a superb mastery of many kinds of plays. Biting satire, a keen sense of humor both grotesque and absurd, lyricism, and a knowledge of the human heart - these are the main features of Krasnogorov's theatre pieces. His plays Let's Have Sex, The Dog, Small Tragedies, This Weak Tender Sex, Procession of Gnomes, Love Medicine, Several Hours from the Life of a Man and a Woman, Delights of Adultery, The Dog, Small Tragedies, This Weak Tender Sex, Bride's Room, The Cruel Lesson, Murder Case et al. are warmly met by critics and audience. Up to now 21 plays of him have been performed in 160 theaters. The plays of V. Krasnogorov are sometimes played several hundreds times. Critics noticed that "Krasnogorov's plays cross borders easily". For this reason, many of them have been translated into foreign languages and staged in theatres, on radio and on TV of different countries. He is member of the Writers Union of Russia, the Russian Union of Theater Workers, and has served as president of the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Playwrights Association.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Valentin Krasnogorov
Delights Of Adultery | ||
| 1st Produced: | St. Petersburg, Russia | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Maly Drama Theatre-Theatre of Europe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55307 | |||
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Genre: | Translation, tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Valentin Krasnogorov. Translation by Valentin Krasnogorov and Marilyn Hillmann. | |||||
Synopsis: | A trio of skillfully interconnected short plays which offer three contrasting scenes from the life of a lovers' couple. The plays may be presented either singly (as is done in the world famous Bolshoi Drama Theatre in St. Petersburg), or as a three-act play. Easy dialogue, paradoxical plot, comical, sometimes farcical situations, and dramatic skill keep audience spellbound until the last word of the play. The story. 1. The wedding is to be tomorrow. The happy bride is in the embrace of her lover, but. . .he is not her bridegroom. They are to decide what to do next. 2. The lovers have a rendezvous in the man's apartment. 3. The lovers meet again, maybe for the last time. The love and happiness are gone. Why? And who is to blame? | |||||
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Delights Of Adultery | ||
| 1st Produced: | St. Petersburg, Russia | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Maly Drama Theatre-Theatre of Europe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55305 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Translation, tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Valentin Krasnogorov. Translation by Valentin Krasnogorov and Marilyn Hillmann. | |||||
Synopsis: | A trio of skillfully interconnected short plays which offer three contrasting scenes from the life of a lovers' couple. The plays may be presented either singly (as is done in the world famous Bolshoi Drama Theatre in St. Petersburg), or as a three-act play. Easy dialogue, paradoxical plot, comical, sometimes farcical situations, and dramatic skill keep audience spellbound until the last word of the play. The story. 1. The wedding is to be tomorrow. The happy bride is in the embrace of her lover, but. . .he is not her bridegroom. They are to decide what to do next. 2. The lovers have a rendezvous in the man's apartment. 3. The lovers meet again, maybe for the last time. The love and happiness are gone. Why? And who is to blame? | |||||
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Dog, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York et al. | 1998 | ||||
Company: | American Theater Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55304 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Translation, tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Valentin Krasnogorov | |||||
Synopsis: | There are 3 characters in this drama: a man, a woman and . . . a dog (who is to be played by a child or by an actress). The action turns on a simple premise: the man wants to have his dog killed and leads it to a veterinary station, where the woman works. The dog hinders his lifestyle - but can love and faithfulness hinder anybody? Character of the woman - biting, and sometimes aggressive, but unselfish, ready to love and to help - determined the play's title. This touching play is presented by many theatres with great success. | |||||
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Let's Have Sex | ||
| 1st Produced: | Moscow:Theatre of Roman Viktyuk | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54671 | |||
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Genre: | Translation, drama-comedy, 120 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Valentin Krasnogorov. Translated by Eugene Reznikov and James Walker | |||||
Synopsis: | Five people search for love, self-affirmation, and happiness, all of which prove illusive in this strange, humorous play. A wife tries to talk to her husband about sex, but he would rather read a book. Soon a psychiatry professor appears and convinces the wife to run away with him, but while she is packing her bags, a young woman comes along and invites the professor to run away with her. The characters' tragic pleas of 'Let's have sex!' fail to bring about any human intercourse, but as a discourse, the phrase provides an empty slogan with which to communicate their isolated and alienated existence in a hostile postmodern world. | |||||
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Let's Have Sex | ||
| 1st Produced: | Moscow:Theatre of Roman Viktyuk | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54672 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Translation, drama-comedy, 120 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Valentin Krasnogorov. Translated by Eugene Reznikov and James Walker | |||||
Synopsis: | Five people search for love, self-affirmation, and happiness, all of which prove illusive in this strange, humorous play. A wife tries to talk to her husband about sex, but he would rather read a book. Soon a psychiatry professor appears and convinces the wife to run away with him, but while she is packing her bags, a young woman comes along and invites the professor to run away with her. The characters' tragic pleas of 'Let's have sex!' fail to bring about any human intercourse, but as a discourse, the phrase provides an empty slogan with which to communicate their isolated and alienated existence in a hostile postmodern world. | |||||
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Small Tragedies | ||
| 1st Produced: | St. Petersburg, Russia | 1988 | ||||
Company: | Bolshoi Drama theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55306 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Translation, drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Valentin Krasnogorov. Translation by Valentin Krasnogorov | |||||
Synopsis: | A triptych of short plays of a keen philosophical content. They are written in a very modern style with a great imaginative force. The idea of the plays is how difficult it is for men to hear and understand each other. An unusual theatrical form arouses great audience interest. The story. 1. Pelicans In A Desert. Four quite independent lines of action are simultaneously developed in this short play: a girl meeting her lover, a lonely man who requests a doctor's visit to have a human being to talk with, a blind man who is abandoned by his companion, and an old woman waiting in vain for help. All the lines form a whole, which is full of passion and meaning. 2. What Are You Thinking Of? A man and his wife are talking during their dinner, but their words don't matter. While talking the man dreams of freedom, love, fame, happiness, and his dreams materialize on the scene. 3. The Wall. A man and his wife discover one morning that an invisible wall has risen between them. In spite of all their attempts they cannot get over it. This short play - a dialog between the two, who can't even hear each other. | |||||
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