Product Description
British premiere for extraordinary first play by 24-year-old from Western Siberia, winner of the Anti-Booker Prize In a faceless city in the depths of present-day Russia a young boy dies. Women in the street are drunk, fight and demand sex. Like a latterday figure from Dostoyevsky, the schoolboy Maksim makes his way through this urban hell, drawn into it one moment, repelled the next. His only retreat is into a private world moulded by himself, out of which springs a final act of reckless courage. 'You attempt your home-grown welfare and the results are like this. Look: drug addicts, delinquents and the dregs of society...' The British premiere took place at the Royal Court Theatre in Spring 2002 directed by Dominic Cooke.
About the Author
Vassily Sigarev was born in 1977 in the Lower Tagil region of the Urals on the Western fringes of Siberia, where he still lives and works. Plasticine, his first play, was invited to the new writing festival in Lyubimovka in June 2000. It was staged in Moscow in the Spring of 2001 and won the Anti-Booker Prize.