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Description for Ladybird
Paperback. Dima, 19, lives with his alcoholic father in a block of flats near the cemetery. Tomorrow he'll join the army and go to fight in Chechnya. Tonight he's trying to have a party. Lera, 20, lives in the same block. She reckons she's won a fortune if she can just borrow 1000 roubles to enter a competition. Translator(s): Dugdale, Sasha. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 7. Weight in Grams: 94.
A tough but tender portrait of urban squalor, from the award-winning Siberian-born author of Plasticine.
Dima, 19, lives with his alcoholic father. The night before he leaves for the war in Chechnya to do his national service, he throws a party. Lera, 20, lives in the same block. She's convinced that she'll win a fortune if only she can borrow enough money for a lottery ticket. Lera's cousin Yulka, 18, is more interested in seeing just how far Dima will go to prove his devotion to her.
Vassily Sigarev's play Ladybird was first performed in this English translation ... Read more
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854597885
SKU
V9781854597885
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About Vassily Sigarev
Vassily Vladimirovich Sigarev is a Russian playwright, screenwriter and film director. His plays Plasticine, Black Milk and Ladybird were first produced in the West by the Royal Court Theatre. Sasha Dugdale is a translator and poet. She has translated the work of many leading contemporary playwrights writing in Russian, including: Bad Roads (Royal Court Theatre, 2017) and The Grain Store (Royal Shakespeare ... Read more
Reviews for Ladybird
'Compelling... a powerful expression of modern Russia's struggle to free itself from its Soviet past... the fire in Sigarev's belly is in no danger of going out'
The Times
'Belongs in the great tradition of Gorkyesque realism... grippingly persuasive... Sasha Dugdale's translation is faultless'
Guardian
The Times
'Belongs in the great tradition of Gorkyesque realism... grippingly persuasive... Sasha Dugdale's translation is faultless'
Guardian