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The Grain Store
Natal´ia Vorozhbit
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Description for The Grain Store
Paperback. A play showing the impact of Stalin's reign of terror on the people of a Ukrainian village - premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Translator(s): Dugdale, Sasha. Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 142.
Ukraine 1929. As Stalin launches the first of his Five-Year Plans, a closeknit rural community stands unwittingly in the path of his drive to create a thriving socialist Soviet Union. The outcome is catastrophic.
What begins for the people of the village as an amusingly alien concept rapidly becomes an unstoppable force for change. Robbed first of their land, then their religion and independence, the whole country soon becomes engulfed by a tragedy that will scar a nation for generations.
Natal'ya Vorozhbit's play The Grain Store was first staged in this English translation by Sasha Dugdale by the ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848420458
SKU
V9781848420458
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Ref
99-15
About Natal´ia Vorozhbit
Natal'ya Vorozhbit (aka Natal'ia Vorozhbyt) is a Ukrainian playwright and a leader in the resurgence of Ukrainian national drama in the 21st century. She writes in both Ukrainian and Russian. Her first major play, Galka Motalko, had success shortly after she graduated from the Gorky Literature Institute (Moscow) in 2000. The Grain Store, a historical work about the Holodomor, ... Read more
Reviews for The Grain Store
'A grim subject, but this extraordinary play by Natal'ia Vorozhbit tackles it, in Sasha Dugdale's translation, with passion, intelligence and cunning'
Guardian
'A disturbing vision of socialist dogma degenerating into corrosive megalomania'
Evening Standard
Guardian
'A disturbing vision of socialist dogma degenerating into corrosive megalomania'
Evening Standard