Russian
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$12.95–$15.00
Anton Chekhov, translated by Stephen Mulrine$12.95–$15.00Description
Set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's compelling early play is rooted in the revolutionary atmosphere of Russia at the turn of the 20th century.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes -
Wendy Wasserstein, based on the short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
Varinka is a free spirit in love with the older Byelinkov, the most proper man in town. But his inhibitions and worries about how he and Varinka are perceived when she boldly rides a bicycle about town threatens to unravel their impending marriage... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes -
$12.95–$15.00
Richard Nelson, Alexander Gelman$12.95–$15.00Description
MISHA'S PARTY is set one August night in Moscow: a man attempts to throw himself a sixtieth birthday party, a grandmother attempts a reconciliation with her granddaughter, and one half of the government attempts to overthrow the other half... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (7 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 125 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes -
$12.95
Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky$12.95Description
One of the world's great plays about censorship and the oppression of artists is now newly translated by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (6 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes -
$12.95
Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky$12.95Description
Ivan Turgenev's beautiful and subtle comedy of love in a new translation by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 170 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes -
$15.00–$15.95
Constance Congdon, adapted from VASSA ZHELEZNOVA by Maxim Gorky, translated by Tanya Chebotarev$15.00–$15.95Description
An adaptation of Gorky's classic black comedy, VASSA ZHELEZNOVA, A MOTHER concerns a family's stern, penny-pinching matriarch who will do anything for her family.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes -
Spalding Gray, based on a short story by Anton Chekhov
Description
Famously astute observer of everyday life, Spalding Gray receives a Chekhov short story in the mail, leading him into a monologue that confronts the fears that beset us... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Comedy (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes -
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
"It's a comedy with three female and six male roles, four acts, a landscape (view of a lake), lots of talk of literature, little action and 180 lbs of love... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (6 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes -
$15.00–$15.95
Emily Mann, freely adapted from Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULL$15.00–$15.95Description
Emily Mann brings Chekhov's masterpiece into the 21st century with bright contemporary language and a modern Hamptons' setting... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes -
$15.00–$15.95
Evgeny Shvarts, translated by Laurence Senelick$15.00–$15.95Description
In an imaginary, fantastical land a scholar arrives seeking to find a way to make as many people as he can happy.
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (5 female, 11 male, doubling possible, many bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes -
$12.95–$15.00
Tony Kushner$12.95–$15.00Description
A fantastical/political/historical exploration of life in the Soviet Union in the earliest dawn of Perestroika... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes -
$12.95–$15.00
Nikolai Erdman, adapted by Richard Nelson$12.95–$15.00Description
An unemployed "little man" contemplates suicide and is besieged by discontented groups wanting him to turn his suicide into a gesture on their behalf.
Production Info
Cast: 24 total (9 female, 15 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes -
$12.95–$15.00
Maxim Gorky, translated by Stephen Mulrine$12.95–$15.00Description
Gorky's magnificent response to Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD was written in 1904, the year Chekhov died... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 17 total (6 female, 11 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes -
John Guare, based on a short story by Anton Chekhov
Description
While hang gliding in the Catskills, a young woman wonders whether the young man in her company loves her... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes -
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson
Description
Chekhov's classic tale of three sisters stuck in a provincial town and longing for Moscow finds a surehanded adaptor in award-winning author Richard Nelson.
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (5 female, 10 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes