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The Drunks
Mikhail And Vyacheslav Durnenkov
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Description for The Drunks
Paperback. In a provincial town somewhere in Russia, a shell-shocked soldier downs vodka on his return from the frontline in Chechnya. As he arrives home he stumbles into the epicentre of an extraordinary power struggle that threatens to tear the town apart. Translator(s): Raine, Nina. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 116.
A darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time.
A provincial town is in search of a hero. A shell-shocked soldier downs vodka on his return from the frontline in Chechnya. As Ilya arrives home he stumbles into the epicentre of an extraordinary power struggle that threatens to tear the town apart.
Mikhail and Vyacheslav Durnenkov's play The Drunks was first performed, in this English version by Nina Raine, by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Courtyard Theatre in ... Read more
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848420571
SKU
V9781848420571
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Ref
99-50
About Mikhail And Vyacheslav Durnenkov
Mikhail and Vyacheslav Durnenkov have written over thirty plays, both individually and together, winning awards for their work at the Moscow Art Theatre and in countries throughout the world.
Reviews for The Drunks
'A maelstrom of corruption, egomania and lubricious booziness, rendered in spicily idiomatic English by Nina Raine'
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