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  • The Dragon
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    The Dragon

    Evgeny Shvarts, translated by Laurence Senelick
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    Play Description

    A town ruled by a dragon and compelled to pay it tribute is rescued by Sir Lancelot, at a terrible price to himself. But the mayor and his son prove to be just as bad as the dragon, and Lancelot has to save the town again, this time judging it harshly.

    Production Info

    Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male, Flexible Casting)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
    Categories: The Plays, Bestsellers Tags: Russian
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    • Laurence Senelick

      Laurence Senelick is the Director of Graduate Studies, Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory, at Tufts University. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard. His expertise is in Russian theatre and drama, history of popular entertainment, gender and performance, history of directing, classical theory. Prof. Senelick is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, the most recent being, Soviet Theatre: A Documentary History; Stanislavsky: A Life in Letters; and The American Stage: Writing on the American Theatre (Library of America) and A Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre. Others books include: The Chekhov Theatre: A Century of the Plays in Performance and The Changing Room: Sex, Drag, and Theatre, as well as over a hundred articles in learned journals. He is a former Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin. Prof. Senelick was named Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. Prof. Senelick has been named a Distinguished Scholar by both the American Society of Theatre Research and the Faculty Research Awards Council of Tufts University. He is the recipient of grants and awards from, among others, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has received the Barnard Hewitt Award of the American Society for Theatre Research for The Chekhov Theatre; the George Freedley Award of the Theatre Library Association for The Age and Stage of George L. Fox and The Changing Room; and the George Jean Nathan Award for best dramatic criticism of 2000. He holds the St. George medal of the Russian Ministry of Culture for services to Russian art and scholarship, and is honorary curator of Russian theatre at the Harvard Theatre Collection. He was also awarded a stipend from the TranScript/Mikhail Prokhorov Fund for Translation from the Russian. In 2008 he won the Graduate Teaching award (doctoral level) of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools and in 2012 the Betty Jean Jones Prize of American Theatre and Drama Society for Distinguished Teaching. He is a widely produced translator of plays from such authors as Chekhov and Feydeau, and director at Tufts of his own translations of The Inspector General, The Bakkhai, and Anything to Declare? He has acted and directed with such organizations as the Poets' Theatre, the Loeb Drama Center, the Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Baroque, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the revue The Proposition. He recently devised new courses on Cabaret, Theatre and Visual Studies, and Low Comedy and played Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape at the Balch Arena Theatre. His recipes appear in the Bon Appetit cookbooks.

    • Evgeny Shvarts

      Evgeny Lvovich Shvarts (1896 – 1958) was a Soviet playwright and screenwriter whose works include twenty-five plays and the screenplays for three films (in collaboration with Nikolai Erdman). Shavarts's most famous play is THE DRAGON, a satire on totalitarian government.

    Book Information

    Publisher BPPI
    Publication Date 8/31/2012
    Pages 96
    ISBN 9780881455304

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    The Dragon is produced
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    Upcoming and Recent Productions

    Nonprofessional


    10/20/2017 – 10/29/2017
    Davidson College
    Davidson, NC

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