Russian Classics Theatre returns with the second round of the Little Tragedies by Pushkin.

The performance will include Feast in the Time of Plague and Miserly Knight.

In a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse that comprise the "little tragedies."

The "little tragedies" stand among the great masterpieces of Russian literature.
The four "little tragedies"-Mozart and Salieri, The Miserly Knight, The Stone Guest, and A Feast During the Plague-are extremely compressed dialogues, each dealing with a dominant protagonist whose central internal conflict determines both the plot and structure of the play.
Pushkin focuses on human passions and the interplay between free will and fate: though each protagonist could avoid self-ruin, instead he freely chooses it.

In Russian with English surtitles.

Directed by Dimitri Devdariani.

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£15 Entry