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The mannequins' ball : a play in three acts / by Bruno Jasienski ; translated and with an introduction by Daniel Gerould.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jasieński, Bruno, 1901-1939, author.
- Series:
- Routledge Harwood Polish and East European theatre archive ; Volume 6.
- Polish Theatre Archive ; Volume 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian drama--Translations into English.
- Russian drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (101 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. <BR>Stalinism and the purges cut short Jasienski's career and prevented productions of his play for many years - except for a brilliant constructivist staging in Prague in 1933. <EM>The Mannequins' Ball </EM>can now take its place along with Capek's <EM>R.U.R.</EM> as one of the major twentieth-century dramas making use of the themes and techniques of human autom
- Contents:
- chapter The Mannequins' Ball.
- Notes:
- First published 2000 by Harwood Academic Publishers.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 26, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-134-42541-4
- 1-315-07974-7
- 1-134-42534-1
- 9781315079745
- OCLC:
- 884017051
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