ELKOST International literary agency - World premier of the dramatic production by St.Petersburg Theater of Satire based on Ludmila Ulitskaya's DANIEL STEIN, TRANSLATOR took place in Poland

http://www.konfrontacje.pl/2008/en/s-daniel.html

During the 13th International theater festival KONFRONTATIONS (October 8-12, 2008) in Lublin, Poland, the St.Petersburg Theater of Satire on Vasilyevsky Island presented its new 140-minute-long dramatic production based on Ludmila Ulitskaya's bestselling novel DANIEL STEIN, TRANSLATOR. This first stage version of Ulitskaya's title is directed by famous Polish director Andrzej Bubień.

Bubień's stage version of Ulitskaya's DANIEL STEIN was enthusiastically met by Polish audience. All critics mention that a performance was followed by a 20-minute applause.

Now this production is on Theater of Satire's fixed repertoire: http://www.satira.spb.ru/repertoir/shtain.htm

Here are the poster and some photos of the production:

ADDENDUM TO OLD PHOTO ALBUM, a novel by Vladislav Otroshenko (2007)

Rights sold: Italy – Voland, Fanucci (magazine rights), France - Verdie, Macedonia - Makedonika Litera, World English - Dalkey Archive Press

A magical realism masterpiece, this family saga is populated by surrealist characters, and narrated with a spicy and clownish language. A mysterious race of a greedy tribe leaded by a bizarre patriarch with a heroic past, all inhabiting the unexplored depths of a house as big as the world. Otroshenko's quirky and cute characters move, peck, amuse one another as if they were puppets of papier mâché, engaged in phantasmagoric adventures, enchanting and exhilarating. Otroshenko makes the entire history of mankind and of Russia to repeat itself endlessly, in concentric circles out of time and space.

Sergei Prokofiev, a biography, by Igor Vishnevetsky (2009, NF)

Rights sold: Russia - Molodaya Gvardia, World English - GLAGOSLAV

“A classical composer is a mad person composing music, which is not clear to his own generation”, the brilliant Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, whose 120th birth anniversary will be marked on April 23rd, used to say. However, the date itself is Prokofiev’s imagination, as the author of his biography that was published in 2009 in the Life of Remarkable People series, Igor Vishnevetsky, who is a poet, a prose-writer and a culturologist, says.

"Officially, we celebrate Prokofiev’s birthday, which is the product of his imagination, on April 23rd, while according to the official documents, it should be celebrated on April 27th. Igor Vishnevetsky said in an interview with the Voice of Russia."

One of the old myths was that Sergei Prokofiev was a person, who was seriously interested in nothing at all in his life, except music and...

World premier of the dramatic production by St.Petersburg Theater of Satire based on Ludmila Ulitskaya's DANIEL STEIN, TRANSLATOR took place in Poland

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ADDENDUM TO OLD PHOTO ALBUM, a novel by Vladislav Otroshenko (2007)

Sergei Prokofiev, a biography, by Igor Vishnevetsky (2009, NF)