That Third Guy: A Comedy from the Stalinist 1930s with Essays on Theater

by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

This collection of theater writings by the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky brings his powerful, wildly imaginative vision of theater to an English-language audience for the first time. The centerpiece is his play That Third Guy (1937), a farce written at the onset of the Stalinist Terror and never performed. Its plot builds on Alexander Pushkin's poem "Cleopatra," while parodying the themes of Eros and empire in the Cleopatra tales...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299317102
• ISBN13: 9780299317102
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"