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Annajanska

A Revolutionary Romancelet.

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    George Bernard (GB) Shaw 

  • Nótaí Faoin Údar

    Shaw declared his play to be an adaptation " from the Russian of Gregory Biessipoff." The latter transpired to be fictional, a pseudonym for Shaw himself.

  • Suíomh

    The Eastern Front, 1917.

  • Achoimre

    Unhappy at the new regime, the royalist General Strammfest is horrified to learn that the beautiful Duchess Annajanska has joined the revolution and eloped with a young officer. Captured and interrogated, Annajanska engages the General in a debate about royalty, liberty and revolution.

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    • Cast size

  • Male

    3

  • Female

    1

  • Total

    4

Céad Léiriú

  • Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

    21 January 1918

  • Nótaí faoin Ionad

    First performed under the title 'Annajanska, the Wild Duchess' at the Coliseum, London.

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Annajanska Lillah McCarthy
General Strammfest Randle Ayrton
Schneidekind Henry Miller
First Soldier Drelincourt Odlum

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    Selected One-Act Plays by Bernard Shaw/ Vol.1: The showing-up of Blanco Posnet. -How he lied to her husband.- O'Flaherty V.C.- The Inca of Perusalem.- Annajanska, the Bolshevick Empress.- Village wooing. -Vol. 2: The dark lady of the sonnets.- Overruled.-

  • Bliain

    1956

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