G < > Mariah Gale Michael Gambon Romola Garai Jimmy Gardner William Gaskill John Gay Peter Geddis Pam Gems The General from America Jean Genet Michel de Ghelderode Ghosts John Gielgud The Gift of the Gorgon Alexandra Gilbreath Peter Gill Jean Giraudoux Iain Glen Robert Glenister Jamie Glover Julian Glover The Glowing Manikin God Bless Derek Godfrey Patrick Godfrey Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nikolai Gogol Golden Girls Carlo Goldoni Stella Gonet Good Buzz Goodbody Henry Goodman Goodnight Children Everywhere Rupert Goold Marius Goring Maxim Gorky Gordon Gostelow Orlando Gough The Government Inspector Fraser Grace Nickolas Grace Michael Grandage Harley Granville-Barker Günter Grass Trystan Gravelle Simon Gray Great Expectations The Great White Hope The Greeks Graham Greene Paul Greenwood David Greig Richard Griffiths Trevor Griffiths Pippa Guard Vladimir Gubaryev Peter Guinness Mike Gwilym		Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) Russian playwright The RSC championed the plays of Maxim Gorky during the 1970s. The major Russian playwright in the period after Chekhov, Gorky was self-educated and wrote from bitter experience (his name, a pseudonym, means 'bitter'). In his social-realist works he explored the class-struggle, giving a voice to the oppressed poor in a Russia on the brink of revolution (he was forced into exile after the failed revolution of 1905). His first play, Scenes in the House of Bersemenov, was staged by the Moscow Art Theatre at the recommendation of Chekhov (1902). The Lower Depths, staged by the RSC in 1962 and 1972, is about Moscow's underclass; Summerfolk, staged by David Jones at the RSC in 1974, Peter Stein at the Schaubühne, Berlin, in 1976 and Trevor Nunn at the NT in 1999, is a teeming ensemble piece, the portrait of a community. Gorky was revered after the Revolution. As president of the Soviet Writers' Union, in a country where official culture was a servant of the state, and unofficial culture led to imprisonment or death, Gorky had nowhere to go as a writer: all his great works were written before 1917.	The Lower Depths (1902) 1962 Arts Theatre: Toby Robertson 1972 Aldwych: David Jones Enemies (1906) 1971 Aldwych: David Jones Summerfolk (1904) 1974 Aldwych: David Jones The Zykovs (1913) 1976 Aldwych: David Jones Children of the Sun (1905) 1979 Aldwych: Terry Hands Philistines (1901) 1985 TOP: John Caird Barbarians (1906) 1990 Barbican: David Jones
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