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Zoyka's Apartment: A Tragic Farce in Three Acts (Great Translations for Actors Series)
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About Zoyka's Apartment: A Tragic Farce In Three Acts
Product Description Zoyka's Apartment captures the exotic image and the real heartbeat of an amazing city at a fascinating moment: Moscow in the Soviet equivalent of the roaring 20's, in a pause between the cyclone of the revolution and the inferno of the purges, a window of desperate opportunity. Tremendous danger mingles with heady excitement, as everyone scrambles to get together as many rubles as possible and escape to Paris before the inevitable crackdown. How will smart, bold, practical Zoyka manage to get enough rubles in a hurry? Her only assets are a large apartment and an even larger imagination... From Booklist Bulgakov is remembered today for his brilliant, long-suppressed satirical novel The Master and Margarita, finally published in the Soviet Union in 1967, 27 years after his death. In his prime--the 1920s and 1930s--Bulgakov was known as much for his plays as his fiction and was, thanks to Stalin's unexpected patronage, one of a handful of playwrights associated with Stanislavsky's famed Moscow Art Theatre. Zoyka's Apartment precedes Bulgakov's stint with Stanislavsky. It is a satirical comedy about the bureaucratic games a Russian widow must play in the 1920s to keep her large Moscow apartment--an effort that even forces her to transform the place from a sewing shop by day into a brothel by night. In passing, the play pokes fun at the mountebanks, drug pushers, and various corrupt officials that peopled Soviet Moscow's thriving black market. Dubbed a tragic farce thanks to its darkly comic ending, Zoyka's Apartment provides a fascinating, highly entertaining look at the dark side of postrevolutionary Russia. Jack Helbig About the Author Nicholas Saunders, actor and director, has appeared in 19 Broadway shows and hundreds of television programs. A native Russian, Mr. Saunders has had a parallel career in the Russian language field, holding the position as Production and Presentation Manager of the Russian Department at Radio Liberty. Frank Dwyer, formerly a member of such classical companies as the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center and CSC Repertory Theater, is currently a member of the Antaeus Company at the Taper.
