MOSCOW STATIONS

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An account of the cultured alcoholic and self-mocking intellectual Yerofeevs heroic odyssey from Moscow to neighbouring Petushki. The production successfully transferred to the West End (1995), where Tom Courtenays performance and the play received much acclaim. Cast size: 1

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Venedikt Erofeev was born in 1938 and died in 1990 of throat cancer in a tragic parody of his autobiographical heros fate. His fame rests essentially on the novel Moskva Petushki, written in the 1970s and published in sixteen languages. Born Glasgow, 1937, married with three children, lecturer in History of Art at Glasgow School of Art. Freelance writer, broadcaster and translator. Literary output includes poetry, short stories and criticism, also several original plays for television, and some ninety plus hours of radio drama, serials, adaptations and original plays. His adaptation of Yerofeev's 'Moscow Stations', published by Oberon Books, has been staged in Edinburgh, London and New York. Since the late 1980s has concentrated on translation from Russian.