Cast: 7f 11m plus extras
Staging: 1 interior & 2 exterior sets
Amateur rights performance fee: £60 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
6 Oct 2006Size: 162mm x 107mm
24 Oct 2019
Summerfolk
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Maxim Gorky's magnificent response to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, written in 1904, the year Chekhov died.
Summerfolk is a play about the Russian bourgeois social class and the changes occurring around them in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century. It is set in a world of 'false hopes and unfulfilled promises', where dachas have been subdivided into summer colonies and the newly rich idle away their time in unhappy romantic alliances. Gorky's characters are still dreaming of a better life, but they are increasingly aware of impending revolution.
Gorky's play premiered in November 1904 at the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre in Saint Petersburg.
This English version, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.
Cast: 7f 11m plus extras
Staging:1 interior & 2 exterior sets
Amateur rights performance fee: £60 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
6 Oct 2006Size: 162mm x 107mm
24 Oct 2019