Aleksei arbuzov biography examples
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Arbuzov, Aleksei Nikolaevich
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Arbuzov, Aleksei Nikolaevich
Born May 13 (26), 1908, in Moscow. Soviet Russian playwright.
Arbuzov graduated from a theatrical school in Leningrad and began publishing in 1930. His works include the plays The Long Way (1935), Tania (1939), City at Dawn (1941; new edition, 1957), Cottage on the Outskirts (1943), Years of Wandering (1954), Irkutsk Story (1959), Lost Son (1961), Somewhere Someone Waits for Us (1962), My Poor Marat (1965), and Night Confession (1967). The basic theme of these plays is the formation of the spiritual makeup of Soviet youth as well as the formation of Communist morality. The play European Chronicle (1953) deals with the ideological diversity of the European intelligentsia. The search for new dramatic forms, a lyrical and romantic mood, a certain melodramatic quality, sharpness of
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“A Man and a Woman” to Run
Iran Theater-“A Man and a Woman” direkt by Hooshman Honarkar will run at Entezami Hall.
“A Man and a Woman” is based on a play bygd Aleksei Arbuzov. The play is a love story and Kazem Hazhir Azad and Nahid Moslemi will act in the show.
Mahin Oskooi translated it to Farsi. Hooshman Honarkar will do production and light design as well.
The crew: Sima Samani (costum designer), Nasrin Pishibahar (assistant director and sekreterare of the scene), Ebrahim Hosseini (photographer), Soheila Alipour (posters designer), Somayeh Alipour (Public Relations) and Alireza Abbasi (advertising officer).
Aleksei Nikolaevich Arbuzov was a Soviet playwright.
Arbuzov was born in Moscow, but his family moved to Petrograd in 1914. Orphaned at the age of eleven, he found salvation in the theatre, and at fourteen he began to work in the Mariinsky Theatre. In 1928 he joined a group of ung actors in the Guild of Experimental Drama; after its dissolution he joined a traveling agit
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The Promise
The opening act finds the three characters sharing a room in a derelict building in Leningrad during WW2; Each responding to the traumatic events occurring around them. Whilst The Promise is more specific in time and place, I found this opening act was quite reminiscent of Philip Ridleys’ Brokenville (2001) and Debra Oswald’s Stories in the Dark (2008) - which both set up a similar scenario of isolated teenagers negotiating their way through upheaval and shared stories.
This play differs in the second and third act where we are offered the opportunity to follow these characters further into their future, to potentially see how those events in the first act have continued to impact upon their lives.
However, for me, this is where the play might lose some traction. I’m not sure whether the play is using the subtext of their repressed love triangle