The Drunks - NHB Modern Plays

Mikhail Durnenkov, Viacheslav Durnenkov

Paperback (26 Aug 2009)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

About the Publisher

Nick Hern Books

Nick Hern Books is the UK's leading specialist performing arts publisher with over 1,000 plays and theatre books in our catalogue. Our list of plays includes work by many of the UK's preeminent playwrights, as well as some of the most exciting emerging writers. We work with major theatres and theatre companies across the UK and in Ireland to publish new plays alongside their professional premieres, often in the form of a 'programme/text' that combines the functions of theatre programme and playtext. We also publish many classic plays and plays in translation, together with a wide range of authoritative theatre books, many of them written by well-known theatre practitioners.

Book information

ISBN:	9781848420571
Publisher:	Nick Hern Books
Imprint:	Nick Hern Books
Pub date:	26 Aug 2009
DEWEY:	891.725
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	68
Weight:	116g
Height:	198mm
Width:	132mm
Spine width:	12mm