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Revision as of 13:00, 8 February 2024
There are a large number of fictional works and plays using the title Bliss.
This entry discusses only those works that (may) have been performed in South Africa
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Bliss by Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)[]
The original text
The play has been described as a “satirical-romantic romp through history”, one that mocks the past, present, and a supposedly “ideal” future.[1] Bulgakov creates in Bliss an everyman’s story of the desire to escape the false promises of the Revolution and the inherent dangers in even thinking such thoughts.
Written in Russian between 1929-1933, usually dated as 1934, it was not published in the Soviet Union until 1966,
Adaptations and translations
Translated into English long after his death, usually as Bliss, inter alia by Bulgakov scholar Carl R. Proffer (published in The Early Plays of Mikhail Bulgakov, edited by Carl R Proffer and Ellendea Proffer, 1972) and by Mirra Ginsburg (published in the volume Flight & Bliss in 1985). The text has often been performed in English since.
The play, with its plotline of Ivan of the Terrible appearing in contemporary Moscow, became the basis for another Bulgakov play, Ivan Vasilievich (1936), which later became the very successful and popular Soviet film Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession (1979).[2]
South African productions
Mid-1970s: Performed by the Rhodes University Drama Department, with a cast that included Pamela Gien,
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/47319
https://dmoddylabs.medium.com/bulgakovs-play-bliss-c296effc3306
https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bulgakov_mikhail
BLISS BY PETER CAREY
Based on a 1939 short story by Andrey Platonov, it is a play about the shame of war, the potential of love, and the strength of the human spirit, telling the tragi-comic tale of a young couple trying to build a life against the odds in the aftermath of the Russian civil war.
