Bliss

There are a large number of fictional works and plays using the title Bliss.

This entry discusses only those works that have been performed in South Africa

Bliss by Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)[]

The play has been described as a “satirical-romantic romp through history”, one that mocks the past, present, and a supposedly “ideal” future.[1]

Written in Russian in 1934, it was not published in the Soviet Union until 1966,

Translated into English as Bliss by Mirra Ginsburg and published in the volume Flight & Bliss in 1985, long after the author’s death.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/47319

https://dmoddylabs.medium.com/bulgakovs-play-bliss-c296effc3306

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.