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1. The Conspiracy of Feelings and The Little Theatre of the Green Goose

   Edited by Daniel Gerould

   Two outstanding examples of socialist-themed plays are combined in this remarkable volume. The Conspiracy of Feelings by Yurii Olesha (1899-1960) is based on his highly respected short novel Envy about the struggle between the old and new in Soviet society. The play, called The Conspiracy of...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two- Headed Calf

   By Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

   Edited by Daniel Gerould

   The Polish playwright and artist Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, known as Witkacy, is now recognized as Poland's leading theatrical innovator of the interwar years and one of the outstanding creative personalities of the European avant-garde. This volume contains two of Witkacy's "tropical" plays...

   Published December 12th 2001 by Routledge
3. Your Murderer

   By Vassily Aksyonov

   Edited by Daniel Gerould, Jadwiga Kosicka

   From Russia comes this ironic, satirical, multi-layered, modern pop-art parable by Vassily Aksyonov. Your Murderer is a richly grotesque hodgepodge of different linguistic levels that defies all rules and mixes a powerful cocktail out of traditional slogans, invented obscentities, foreign words and...

   Published October 30th 2000 by Routledge
4. The Mannequins' Ball

   By Daniel Gerould, Bruno Jaslenski

   This play, by Futurist poet Bruno Jasienski, is an outstanding example of the joining of left-wing politics and avant-garde interest in human mechanization that characterized the experimental theatre of Poland in the inter-war years. Stalinism and the purges cut short Jasienski's career and...

   Published March 8th 2000 by Routledge