Stay in Your Own Sled

Stay in Your Own Sled
Written byAleksander Ostrovsky
Date premiered14 January 1853 (1853-01-14)
Place premieredMaly Theatre in Moscow
Original languageRussian
GenreComedy

Stay in Your Own Sled (Russian: Не в свои сани не садись, an idiom meaning "Don't bite off more than you can chew,"[1]) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky, written in 1852 and first published in the No.5 (March, book 1), 1853 issue of Moskvityanin. It was the first of his plays to be given a theatrical production, as Russian government censorship had previously confined his plays to print or readings in private houses. The play premiered in the Maly Theatre on January 14, 1853.[2]

  1. ^ Sophia Lubensky, Random House Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms (Random House, 1995; ISBN 0679405801), p. 584.
  2. ^ Lakshin, Vladimir (1982). "Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky". Iskusstvo, Moscow. Life in Art series. Retrieved 2012-03-01.