Black Snow by MIKHAIL BULGAKOV , translated by MICHAEL GLENNY , dramatised for radio by LIANE AUKIN with David Wood as Maxudov Simon Lack as Ivan Vassilyevich
Neil Stacy as Bombardov
Black Snow chronicles, In thinly-disguised satirical form, Bulgakov's initial meeting with the legendary Stanislavsky of the Moscow Arts Theatre. It pokes brilliant fun at the inventor of ' the method ' and theatrical life in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, reaching toward a variation on the Faust theme. Setting: Moscow
With ELIZABETH HAVELOCK and CYRIL ROYALL (tenor) JEREMY WATKINS (baSS)
CHRISTOPHER NORTHAM (piano) JOHN TURNER (guitar)
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol