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A darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time.

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The Drunks by Mikhail And Vyacheslav Durnenkov

A darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time. A provincial town is in search of a hero. A shell-shocked soldier downs vodka on his return from the frontline in Chechnya. As Ilya arrives home he stumbles into the epicentre of an extraordinary power struggle that threatens to tear the town apart. Mikhail and Vyacheslav Durnenkov's play The Drunks was first performed, in this English version by Nina Raine, by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2009.

'A maelstrom of corruption, egomania and lubricious booziness, rendered in spicily idiomatic English by Nina Raine'

* Evening Standard *

Mikhail and Vyacheslav Durnenkov have written over thirty plays, both individually and together, winning awards for their work at the Moscow Art Theatre and in countries throughout the world.

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ISBN 13 9781848420571
ISBN 10 1848420579
Title The Drunks
Author Mikhail And Vyacheslav Durnenkov
Series Nhb Modern Plays
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Nick Hern Books
Year published 2009-09-10
Number of pages 96
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.