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Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 12:57 PM
Increasingly, Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire worked on adaptations and historical fiction,
which can be less ideologically dangerous than original works. For
example,
he adapted Gogol's Dead Souls and Cervantes' Don Quixote
for
the Russian stage. He wrote a biography of the French playwright
Moliere.
Bulgakov's play about Moliere, The Cabal of Hypocrites, deals
with
the position of a writer in an autocratic dictatorship. Rehearsed at the
Moscow Art Theater for 4 years, the play was banned after only 7
performances.
Another play, Pushkin (The Last Days), treats the same theme and
suffered the same fate. Again Bulgakov was in despair, and this time he
moved to the Bolshoi Opera as a librettist.
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