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Maxim Gorky - The Old Man

Drama: Classic & Period

16/09/2017

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Maxim Gorky - The Old Man

A successful builder's life is shattered by an old man from his past.

4 Extra Debut. A successful builder's life is shattered by an old man from his past. Turn-of-the-19th-century Russian drama with Freddie Jones.

The life of a successful building contractor is shattered by the intrusion of an old man he knew in the past... 

Set in provincial Russia at the turn of the century, Maxim Gorky drama is translated from Russian by Michael Glenny.

Premiering at Moscow's Maly Theatre on New Year's Day 1919, this was the first English production of the play.

Starring Freddie Jones as Ivan Mastakov, Maxine Audley as Sofia Markovna, Alan Webb as the Old Man, Timothy Bateson as Yakim Kharitonov, Elizabeth Revill as Marina, Margot Boyd as Zakharovna, Terry Scully as Pavel, Julie Hallam as Tanya, Anthony Hall as Stepanych, Anthony Daniels as Yakov and Gareth Armstrong as Nikita Semyonov.

Director of this "stereophonic production": John Tydeman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1974.

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