Man From the Ussr & Other Plays
“He graded the actors on a scale from 1 to 5. Annenkov, the director and set designer, whose name had been omitted, was in large part responsible for the play’s success. The comment on Lyubov’ is “(but pretty)”; the comment on Uncle Paul is “(plus for the goldfish).”
INTRODUCTORY NOTE The Event (Sobytie) was completed in 1938 in Menton, France. It was published in the émigré review Russkie Zapiski (Annales russes), Paris, for April 1938.
It was first produced by the “Russian Theatre,” in Paris in March 1938. The director and set designer was the artist Yuri Annenkov. The play’s originality provoked many echoes and much discussion in the émigré press. It played to a full theatre and had such success that there were several additional performances. It was staged, in Russian, in Prague in May of the same year, and in Warsaw and Belgrade in 1941. On 4 April 1941 it was put on in New York, again in Russian, at the Heckscher Theatre. G. S. Ermolov directed and played the part of Troshcheykin.
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