Drama from the U.S.S.R.
"THE Iron Curtain being no less a cultural division than a_ political one, we approach The Guests with the curiosity of ignorance," said Peter Forster, introducing a new play from Russia -in the BBC Radio Times. The Guests, ‘by Leonard Zorin, will be heard this week from YCs. The play was produced in Russia in 1954, and withdrawn in Pe same year, but not before it had run successfully at two theatres in Moscow and at others in the Russian provinces. The Guests is a rare thing-a picture of contemporary Russia seen through the eyes of one of her younger dramatists. There are many fascinating sidelights on contemporary Russian society, and the play has intriguing political implications. The fact is heavily underlined that humanity is too often oppressed with bureaucracy; it also attacks the Commissars, accusing them of complacency. The question arises of how Zorin was permitted to make these criticisms, and the answer appears to be that the play was produced in a period of comparatively liberal reaction. David Tutaev, who has translated and adapted it for broadcasting, was for three years a journalist in Moscow. In a four-minute introductory talk, the distinguished dramatic critic and writer Ivor Brown describes The Guests as "a. moving and exciting domestic drama." |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 898, 19 October 1956, Page 19
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214Drama from the U.S.S.R. New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 898, 19 October 1956, Page 19
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