The Death of Ivan Ilych
Play Description
One of Leo Tolstoy's most celebrated pieces of late fiction, ILYCH deals with the tyranny of the bourgeois niceties, the weakness in the human heart, living without meaning, and death. Ivan Ilych has spent his life chasing after wealth and status while ignoring his family. After a minor accident, it becomes clear that Ivan Ilyich is going to die. Contemplating his life, Ivan Ilych realizes that he has lived an empty existence as he finds himself totally alone.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
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Press Quotes
“His work is a unique and fearless marriage of politics and art. I take my hat off to him.” —Harold Pinter
“[An] unapologetically political author, Donald Freed, has made a career of hunting out horror as well as humanity in an age that seems bent on self-destruction.” —Los Angeles Times
“We are in the presence of an outstanding dramatic artist, one of huge intelligence, political daring and theatrical imagination.” —The Gate Theatre, Dublin
Book Information
Publisher | BPPI |
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Publication Date | 4/1/2004 |
Pages | 72 |
ISBN | 9780881452365 |
Special Notes
If original stage producers credits appear in bold below, all licensees are required to include them in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:
Originally produced by Denison College
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