Mystery-Bouffe

Mystery-Bouffe
Written byVladimir Mayakovsky
Characters
  • The Clean
  • The Unclean
  • A Compromiser
  • An Intellectual
  • The Lady with the Hatboxes
  • Devils
  • Saints
  • Jehovah
  • Actors of the Promised Land
  • The Man of the Future
Date premieredNovember 18, 1918 (1918-11-18)
Place premieredTheatre of Musical Drama
Petrograd, Russia
Original languageRussian
SettingThe Entire Universe; The Ark; Hell; Paradise; Land of Chaos; The Promised Land

Mystery-Bouffe (Russian: Мистерия-Буфф; Misteriya-Buff) is a socialist dramatic play written by Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1918/1921. Mayakovsky stated in a preface to the 1921 edition that "in the future, all persons performing, presenting, reading or publishing Mystery-Bouffe should change the content, making it contemporary, immediate, up-to-the-minute."[1]

  1. ^ English translation of the 1921 version. Accessed on: January 24, 2009.