This compelling 1902 play, considered Gorky's masterpiece, centers on a group of wretched souls who congregate to play cards, tell stories, and debate whether it is better to ...

"In Gorky's greatest work, the characters are the dregs of society hovelled in a ramshackle inn: a thief, a degenerate baron, a prostitute, an alcoholic actor, the seedy ...

Bertolt Brecht's play The Mother is freely adapted from Gorky's world-famous novel of the same name. Brecht tells the story of a working-class mother who is drawn into the ...

Full of characters who " ... might have stepped out of a Chekhovian world", it takes place in 1904 -- the same year that Anton Chekhov died. The play dramatises the Russian ...

A brief profile of the Russian writer prefaces the texts of three plays characterized by their realistic portrayal of Russian life