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| Author | Vladimir Mayakovsky |
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| Original title | Баня |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | Play |
| Publisher | Gosizdat |
Publication date | 1930 |
| Publication place | Russia |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Preceded by | The Bedbug (1929) |
The Bathhouse (Баня, Banya) is a play by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in 1929, for the Meyerhold Theatre. It was published for the first time in the November, No.11 issue of Oktyabr magazine and released as a book by Gosizdat in 1930. The play premiered at the People's House's Drama Theatre, in Leningrad on January 30, 1930.[1] The "6-act drama with the circus and the fireworks" (according to the subtitle), satirizing bureaucratic stupidity and opportunism under Joseph Stalin,[2] evoked strong criticism in the Soviet press, particularly from the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers.[3]
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