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== Sources ==
 
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Baxter Theatre pamphlet, 1985.
 
Baxter Theatre pamphlet, 1985.
  

Revision as of 14:30, 20 October 2014

Master Class (1983), a play by David Pownall. The play is related to the challenges of the composer Shostakovich within the oppressive political environment of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Published by Faber and Faber, 1983.

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Presented by the Baxter Theatre and The Company of Four, December 1984, directed by Leonard Schach, starring Michael Atkinson as Josef Stalin, the British actor Jonathan Sharp as Shostakovich, Don Maguire and David Alcock. Design by John Caviggia.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pownall

Baxter Theatre pamphlet, 1985.

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