Richard Crane

Russian Plays

Richard Crane

Collected here for the first time are Richard Crane’s seminal stage adaptations of four heavyweights of Russian literature; Pushkin, Gogol, Bulgakov and Dostoyevsky. This volume contains Satan’s Ball , an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita , (winner of the 1977 Edinburgh Fringe First Award) Vanity , a response to Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel Eugene Onegin ; Brothers Karamazov , a dramatisation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s epic final novel; and Gogol , a one-man play which meditates on the life of the Ukrainian novelist and playwright Nikolai Gogol.