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Realism

Realism

$24.99

ISBN: 9780868198521
Author: Paul Galloway
Publication Date: 9/03/2009
Edition: Standard
Publisher: Currency Press
Extent: 112pp.
Availability: Available
Cast Info: 2F , 5M

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SKU: BK667 Categories: Award winning, Black comedy, Comedy, Currency Press, Drama, Plays, Political / social themes Tags: Currency Press, Oriel Gray, Paul Galloway, Scripts
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In the summer of 1939 in a small Moscow theatre, a company of actors begins rehearsals of a new play to commemorate Stalin’s 60th birthday. It’s a tough gig, because for Soviet artists working towards the Radiant Future, the old showbiz maxim ‘the show must go on’ is an order you can’t refuse.

Another opening, another show trial! Realism is a comedy of nerves, a backstage farce set in a pressure cooker. It’s about the spirit that makes art live and the forces that want to crush it.

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