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NIKOLAI ERDMAN (1900 - 1970) |
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Nationality: Russian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Nikolai Erdman |
Dying For It | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571237449 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58937 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman (The Suicide). Literal translation by Charlotte Payne | |||||
| Inspired by Erdmans classic satirical comedy, banned by Stalin before a single performance. Dying For Ii centres on Semyon, unemployed, living in the hallway and watching his wife Masha slave all the hours God sends. When his last hope to earn a crust and gain some self-respect disappears. he decides to take his own life. Word gets out of his intention and he finds himself inundated with visitors begging him to die on their behalf On the night he is to shoot himself they hold a party. at which point events spiral to a glorious climax. | |||||
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Dying For It | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #64992 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman (The Suicide). Literal translation by Charlotte Payne | |||||
Synopsis: | Inspired by Erdmans classic satirical comedy, banned by Stalin before a single performance. Dying For Ii centres on Semyon, unemployed, living in the hallway and watching his wife Masha slave all the hours God sends. When his last hope to earn a crust and gain some self-respect disappears. he decides to take his own life. Word gets out of his intention and he finds himself inundated with visitors begging him to die on their behalf On the night he is to shoot himself they hold a party. at which point events spiral to a glorious climax. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Goodbye Cruel World | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arclight Theatre, NY | 17 Jan 2010 | ||||
Organisations: | Roundtable Ensemble | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #109249 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman | |||||
Synopsis: | The Roundtable Ensemble presents this new adaptation of Nikolai Erdman's black comedy The Suicide, adapted and directed by Robert Ross Parker. Goodbye Cruel World (freely adapted by Parker from a literal translation of Erdman's Samoubiitsa by Marina Raydun) tells the story of Semyon Semyonovich, an unemployed, impoverished young man who discovers the joy of life only when he decides to kill himself. Then word gets out and he finds himself inundated with sympathetic visitorsbegging him to die on their behalf! | |||||
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Grand Gesture, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Sep 2013 | |||||
Organisations: | Northern Broadsides in partnership with Harrogate Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1472531186 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #155215 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman, adapted from The Suicide | |||||
| Simeon Duff is working class, unemployed and desperate. His wife works. He's lost all self esteem. He's on the scrap heap and wants to end it all... and so begins this brilliantly insane comedy about a man on the edge. When word gets out that Duff is going to top himself, a host of ne'er-do-wells crawl out of the woodwork, each wanting to claim his grand gesture for their 'noble cause'. Let's face it, why waste a death? But which cause shall it be. . .love, politics, religion, or the rising price of fish? Will the disillusioned Duff go through with it? Will he really top himself for a dubious cause? Is he worth it? Watch and see & the suspense will kill you, if you don't die laughing first. | |||||
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Mandate, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41244 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman | |||||
Synopsis: | Erdman's weapon, as in his later The Suicide, is farce: the plot suggests Gogol crossed with Ray Cooney. We watch, astonished, as a family of ex-grocers tries to marry into a group of closet Tsarist romantics. The dowry for the daughter, however, has to be a bona fide communist. So we see the petty bourgeoisie frantically seeking to rustle up a group of fake proletarian relatives and Pavel, the son of the house, brandishing a mandate to prove he is a genuine party member. But, like everything in Erdman's world, even that turns out to be less than it seems. - Michael Billington, Guardian | |||||
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Mandate, The | ||
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Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Mandate and The Suicide" published by Ann Arbor 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138571 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Meeting About Laughter, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chambers Theatre Company, Australia | 2002 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "A Meeting About Laughter: Sketches, Interludes and Theatrical Parodies by Nikolai Erdman with Vladimir Mass and Others", 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12599 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman and Vladimir Mass. March - April, 2002 in seven Australian towns. Directed by Cecelia Specht and Jasper Bagg | |||||
Synopsis: | In the Soviet Union in the 1930s a meeting has been called among workers to discuss what to do about the problems of comedy: "Laughter in our day is no laughing matter!" The authorities are insistent that good comedy is necessary in the new workers' paradise, but they want to make sure that the right things and the right people are being skewered by comic writers. Homer, Shakespeare and Jewish jokes are all discussed in a free-for-all that arrives, sort of, at the conclusion that jokes about Jesus Christ and and personal telegrams are acceptable on the condition that they do not "deliver blows to the head" or "arouse instincts -" | |||||
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Suicide, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, Lyttelton, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>> | 13 Apr 2016 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #178547 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman. Suhayla El-Bushra takes the satiric masterpiece by Nikolai Erdman and smashes it into contemporary urban Britain. Its provocative, fast-paced and very funny. | |||||
Synopsis: | Things are getting tough for Sam. No job, benefits stopped and stuck in a tiny flat with his girlfriend Maya and her mum. The pressure is building. It feels like there might be only one way out. But every ending is a beginning and there are plenty of people keen to capitalise on Sam's momentous decision. From corrupt local politicians to kids trying to raise the number of views of their online videos, everyone wants a piece of Sam's demise. It scarcely matters what Sam actually wants. Faced with the promise of immortality, what's his life worth? | |||||
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Suicide, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oregon State University | 2000 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Major Plays of Nikolai Erdman" published by Harwood 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-3718655823 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12602 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | a choir, 9 male extras, 2 female extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman. Meany Studio theater At Washington State University, February, 2003. Directed by Mark Vail | |||||
| Semyon Podsekalnikov lies in bed with his wife Masha wondering if there is any liverwurst left over from dinner. He is hungry. But the nocturnal tete a tete between the husband and wife turns into an argument and Semyon storms out angrily. His has been jobless for as long as he can remember and he is on edge. Masha thinks he might be suicidal and goes to their neighbor Kalabushkin for help in averting disaster. Instead, disaster is what she brings down on her husband and herself. Kalabushkin decides to make some money speculating on Semyon's despair. For a fee, he tells disgruntled people that Semyon may commit suicide and that he might be convinced to leave a note publicizing their causes. Thus begins a crazy parade of supplicants - among them the intellectual Grand-Skubik, the butcher Pugachyov, the writer Viktor Viktorovich and the ladies of ill-repute Cleopatra Maximovna and Raisa Filippovna- who dearly want to use Semyon's death for their own purposes. Semyon, meanwhile, thinks he might make a nice living if he could play the tuba. But according to the tuba instruction book he buys, he first needs to buy a piano in order to learn how to play the scales. If he could afford a piano, he wouldn't need to play the tuba. It's a vicious circle he cannot escape. the heart of "the Suicide" is the way a simple man suddenly finds himself on the brink of extinction when a few unthinking words run up against a duplicitous action or two. By extension, it exposes the foul nature of those who would distort words and exploit others to achieve their selfish and dastardly ends. | |||||
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Suicide, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Mandate and The Suicide" published by Ann Arbor 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138572 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Suicide, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Goodman Theater, Chicago | 1980 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25600 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman | |||||
Synopsis: | an unemployed 'little man' contemplates suicide and is besieged by discontented groups wanting him to turn his suicide into a gesture on their behalf | |||||
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Suicide, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre, Sydney | 18 Mar 2010 | ||||
Organisations: | Hayloft Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #137021 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman | |||||
Synopsis: | Semyon Semyonovich has a terrible row with his wife when she refuses to let him have a sausage for a midnight snack. He runs naked from the house and into the night. The wife is convinced that he has gone off to kill himself. When the neighbours hear about this they prepare a big party to see him off | |||||
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Suicide, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34222 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman | |||||
Synopsis: | an unemployed 'little man' contemplates suicide and is besieged by discontented groups wanting him to turn his suicide into a gesture on their behalf | |||||
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Suicide, The | ||
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Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Mandate and The Suicide" published by Ann Arbor 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138573 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Warrant, The | ||
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Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Major Plays of Nikolai Erdman" published by Harwood 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-3718655823 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #157101 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman | |||||
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