What do you think?
Rate this book
Vassa
It's 8 a.m. and a revolt is underway.
The father is dying. The son is spying. The wife is cheating. The uncle is stealing. The mother is scheming. The dynasty is crumbling.
One house. One fortune. One victor.
Maxim Gorky's savagely funny play Vassa Zheleznova was first published in 1910. Mike Bartlett's adaptation, Vassa, premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in October 2019.
The father is dying. The son is spying. The wife is cheating. The uncle is stealing. The mother is scheming. The dynasty is crumbling.
One house. One fortune. One victor.
Maxim Gorky's savagely funny play Vassa Zheleznova was first published in 1910. Mike Bartlett's adaptation, Vassa, premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in October 2019.
100 pages, Paperback
Published October 27, 2020
2 people want to read
About the author
Mike Bartlett
38 books41 followersMichael Bartlett is a British playwright. Mike Bartlett was born on 7 October 1980 in Abingdon, Oxford, England. He attended Abingdon School, then studied English and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds. In October 2013, Mike won Best New Play at The National Theatre Awards for his play Bull, beating plays from both Alan Ayckbourn and Tom Wells.
(source)
(source)
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
March 23, 2021
4.5, rounded down.
Bartlett is one of my fave contemporary playwrights, but I must admit I had never even heard of Gorky's original, until he proffered this adaptation. Working from Gorky's published but never produced 1910 original, rather than the subsequently produced heavily revised 1936 version, Bartlett has created a very funny, though still pointed political satire. The Zheleznovas make the Trumps, America's very own inept crime family, look almost ... 'ept'! ! Oddly enough, I had just seen the Broadway production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike on streaming the same day I read this, and the parallels are quite fascinating!
Bartlett is one of my fave contemporary playwrights, but I must admit I had never even heard of Gorky's original, until he proffered this adaptation. Working from Gorky's published but never produced 1910 original, rather than the subsequently produced heavily revised 1936 version, Bartlett has created a very funny, though still pointed political satire. The Zheleznovas make the Trumps, America's very own inept crime family, look almost ... 'ept'! ! Oddly enough, I had just seen the Broadway production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike on streaming the same day I read this, and the parallels are quite fascinating!
Displaying 1 of 1 review