Zoom Performance: Pushkin Versus the Plague

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Zoom Performance: Pushkin Versus the Plague

Tue, 14 July6 : 00 PM
Location , Online

On 9 June, the Pushkin Club gave us a glimpse of some of the masterpieces Pushkin wrote at the end of 1830 in three months of quarantine during a pandemic of Asiatic cholera, among them excerpts from the Little Tragedy A Feast during the Plague.

Now, this event offers a rare chance to hear a rehearsed reading of this extraordinary piece by five actors, complete in a translation by Antony Wood.

The translator will first give a short introductory talk. This will be followed, as an overture to the reading, by an arrangement of Shostakovich’s brief piece Galop, played by Julian Milone (violin) and Nadia Giliova (piano). Members of the Pushkin Club will then read ‘A Feast during the Plague’, following which Alla Gelich will read excerpts from it in the original Russian, and finally, so as to end the event on a high note, Pushkin’s poem ‘Вакхическая песня’ (‘Bacchic Song’) in English and Russian.

Cast:

David Brummell Young Man
Adrian Kealey Master of Revels
Lucy Daniels Mary
Penelope Dimond Louisa
Rick Pulford Priest
Julian Milone violin
Nadia Giliova piano
Alla Gelich reader in original
Antony Wood direction

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