Children of the Sun

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A Chekhovian family drama, first staged in Russia in 1905.

In a prophetic echo of the coming revolution, Maxim Gorky's play Children of the Sun looks at the lives of the privileged intelligentsia and of the workers, advocating an alliance between the two.

Children of the Sun was first staged at the Moscow Arts Theatre in 1905.

This editon of the play in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.