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Duck
Hunting
by Aleksandr Vampilov
- a new translation by Patrick Miles
"it's
a man's life..."
Zilov's is a life ruled by passion. Passion for women, for
vodka and a passion for ducks. One day he might even kill
one. This time he is prevented from leaving by a freak downpour.
His friends, outraged by one drunken outburst too many, send
him a wreath and his thoughts turn to the past: his life,
his loves and the ducks he has missed.
World Premiere of a new translation
WHen.
Man in the Moon Theatre, London
3rd - 20th July 1996
The
Cast
Simon
Heale - Zilov
Jolyon Bateman - Kuzarkov
John Hogarth - Sayapin
Lloyd Wylde - Valeria
Lisa van Zyl - Vera
Alan Gwinett - Kushak
Lara Marland - Galina
Catherine Swingler - Irina
Antony Gabriel - Dima
The
Creative Team
Timothy
Hughes - Director
Nigel Hook - Set Designer
Alex Wardle - Lighting Designer
Sabine Kupper - Costume Designer
Junpei Fukuda - Sound Designer
Mark Eades - Composer
Patrick
Miles - Playwright
Is one of the foremost translators of Russian literature in
the country. He spent two and a half years in Russia in the
1970s and 1980s and was made ‘persona non grata’ by the Communist
regime. He has directed his own translations of IVANOV, THE
CHERRY ORCHARD and Chekhov’s vaudevilles on the Edinburgh
Fringe, and has translated Turgenev, Bulgakov, Vampilov and
Rozovskiy for the National Theatre (where he was literary
consultant for two years). Patrick is also editor of CHEKHOV
ON THE BRITISH STAGE (Cambridge University Press, 1993) and
runs his own translation agency in Cambridge.
'Aleksandr
Vampilov's drama of a man whose only concerns are vodka, women
and his longing to shoot a duck...Chekhovian in tone.'
Today’s Choice in The Times for two consecutive
weeks
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