FREE SCRIPT REVIEW "A merry death" (1915) by Nikolai Everinov (d. 1953) tranlated by C.E.Bechhofer (d. 1949)
Tuesday 4 June 2013
Four players of any gender
Tragi-comedy in one act
For those of you bought up outside the pantomime tradition, this is a good introduction. The language is a little antiquated. Ancient pantomime was often not written down and modern pantomime shed the historic characters. This is extremely rare piece, in that the translators work has also fallen into the public domain.
text
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Five_Russian_plays_with_one_from_the_Ukrainian/A_Merry_Death,_a_Harlequonade,_by_Nicholas_Evr%C3%A9inov