The Two Friends

by Alessandro Gallenzi

A theatrical retelling of Gogol's famous story of the two Ivans squabbling over a trifling insult, The Two Friends transposes the action to the village of Newington Green on the outskirts of London in the year 1722, when Daniel Defoe was a resident of the parish, the South Sea Bubble had recently burst and a terrible gin epidemic was about to break out. Peppered with memorable lines, populated by an unforgettable cast of characters and written by multi-award-winning duo Peter Benson and Alessandro Gallenzi, The Two Friends is about the triumph of hilarity in a “dreary old world”.

96 pages, Paperback

Published January 25, 2017

About the author

Translator, poet, playwright and novelist. He graduated from the Università La Sapienza before moving to London in 1997. Founder of Hesperus Press, Alma Books and Alma Classics.