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15 Minute Drama: Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin

Geoffrey Streatfeild

David Dawson

Joshua McGuire

Carolyn Pickles

Zoe Tapper

Alix Wilton Regan

Georgie Fuller

Abigail le Fleming

Duncan Macmillan

Alexander Pushkin

15 Minute Drama: Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin: Episode 2

Eugene Onegin

Episode 2

Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin, Episode 2

Onegin's new friend Lensky persuades him to make a fateful visit to meet his neighbours.

Onegin makes a fateful visit to meet his neighbours. Based on one of Russia's best-loved poems. Starring David Dawson.

By Alexander Pushkin

Adapted by Duncan Macmillan

Drama based on one of Russia's best loved poems, and the life of the man who wrote it. The night before a duel, Alexander Pushkin continues to tell his wife his most famous story: Eugene Onegin. City boy Onegin has inherited his uncle's rural estate. His new friend Lensky persuades him to make a fateful visit to meet his neighbours.

Directed by Abigail le Fleming

About the adapter
Duncan Macmillan is an award winning writer and director. Former Writer in Residence at Paines
Plough and the Royal Exchange Theatre, he has written extensively for theatre in addition to
working in radio and television.

Duncan is currently writing new plays for the National Theatre, Soho Theatre, Paines
Plough and BBC Radio and is adapting George Orwell's 1984 with director Rob Icke for
Headlong/Nottingham Playhouse.

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By Duncan Macmillan. Drama based on Alexander Pushkin's famous poem

Duncan Macmillan's drama is based on one of Russia's best-loved poems and the life of the man who wrote it, Alexander Pushkin

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