📱 eBook en inglés BLACK MILK (NHB MODERN PLAYS)

A worms eye view of post-Communist Russia, from the Siberian-born author of Plasticine.
A remote railway station in the Boundless Motherland. Stranded there are a young spiv, selling overpriced toasters to the local peasantry, and his heavily pregnant wife. They dont like the place, they dont like the people, and they dont much like each other…
Vassily Sigarevs play Black Milk, in this English translation by Sasha Dugdale, was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2003.Terrific… Writers like Sigarev are the future - right now - Independent
Moves between harsh realism and flights of dramatic poetry, between gentle humour and thuggish violence… The Royal Court has discovered a tremendous new talent in Sigarev - Daily Telegraph
A vivid picture of Russias unending contradictions… What makes the play so exciting is its effortless mix of personal and social detail - Guardian
Raw, flawed, but very interesting indeed - The Times
Sasha Dugdales translation is brutally and vividly colloquial, and the acting blazes with pain, anger and fugitive hope - Sunday Times