VASSILY SIGAREV
adaptations/translations by modern playwrights
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Vassily Sigarev
Ahasverus |
| 1st Produced: | play reading at Attic Theatre, Cox’s Yard, Stratford-upon-Avon | 2009 | ||||
| Company: | RSC | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Vassily Sigarev | |||||
| Synopsis: | A drunken homecoming party spins out of control with heartbreaking consequences | |||||
Black Milk |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2003 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Vassily Sigarev | |||||
| Synopsis: | offers another worm's eye view of post-Communist Russia as seen from the bottom of the heap. The setting is a remote railway station in a remote part of the 'Boundless Motherland'. Stranded there are a young spiv, selling overpriced toasters to the local peasantry, and his heavily pregnant wife. They don't like the place, they don't like the people, and they don't much like each other... | |||||
Ladybird |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2004 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Vassily Sigarev | |||||
| Synopsis: | Waters' focal figure is Geoff Fallon: an MEP fighting to draw attention to the plight of the survivors of a civil war, between the Muntu majority and the Kanga minority, in the fictional African state of Irundi. But Fallon's battle against Brussels bureaucracy is intercut with his experiences as an idealistic young teacher working in Irundi under the patronage of a local Muntu farmer, Jean Kiyabe. The Guardian | |||||
Plasticine |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2002 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Vassily Sigarev | |||||
| Synopsis: | In a faceless city in the depths of present-day Russia a young boy dies. Women in the street are drunk, fight and demand sex. The schoolboy Maksim makes his way through this urban hell, drawn into it one moment, repelled the next. His only retreat is into a private world moulded by himself, out of which springs a final act of reckless courage. | |||||