Flight
Will be published approx. on 27. February 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-85459-389-4 (ISBN)
Description
A rich and poetic play set during the Russian Civil War, by the author of The Master and Margarita.
Mikhail Bulgakov's satirical play creates a grotesque, tragicomic world in which men and women are entirely at the mercy of chance. Flight is played out in eight 'dreams' that take us from the frozen landscape of the Crimea on a journey through the twilight of an epoch heading for extinction.
Written in 1927, Flight was not staged until 1957, seventeen years after Bulgakov's death.
This free adaptation by Ron Hutchinson was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in February 1998.
Mikhail Bulgakov's satirical play creates a grotesque, tragicomic world in which men and women are entirely at the mercy of chance. Flight is played out in eight 'dreams' that take us from the frozen landscape of the Crimea on a journey through the twilight of an epoch heading for extinction.
Written in 1927, Flight was not staged until 1957, seventeen years after Bulgakov's death.
This free adaptation by Ron Hutchinson was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in February 1998.
Reviews / Votes
'One of the most powerful evocations of civil war written this century' * Evening Standard *More details
Series
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
95 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85459-389-4 (9781854593894)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Previous edition
Mikhail Bulgakov | Ron Hutchinson
Flight
Book
06/1999
Nick Hern Books
€38.56
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Persons
Mikhail Bulgakov, best-known for his novel The Master and Margarita, is the author of some twenty plays and adaptations, including Moliere and The White Guard. He had a stormy relationship with Stanislaski and the Moscow Art Theatre and was the subject of Stalin's censorship, with the result that many of his plays remained unperformed or unpublished at this death in 1940.