Collaborators (play)

Collaborators is a 2011 play by British screenwriter and dramatist John Hodge about the "surreal fantasy" of a relationship between two historical figures, Mikhail Bulgakov, the prominent Russian writer, and Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the Soviet Union. The play takes place from 1938 to 1940, when Stalin was implementing the Great Purge in which several million people were exiled, imprisoned, or executed. The play is Hodge's first, although he has had a long career as a screenwriter.[1]

The play received its première at the National Theatre, London, on 25 October 2011; Nicholas Hytner directed, with Alex Jennings as Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale as Stalin.[1] The production subsequently won the 2012 Laurence Olivier Award for the best new play produced in Britain.[2] The play has been published in the United Kingdom and in the U.S.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Billington was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Oliver Winners 2012". The Society of London Theatr.
  3. ^ Hodge, John (2011). Collaborators. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571283996. OCLC 823820120.
  4. ^ Hodge, John (2013). Collaborators. New York: Grove Press. ISBN 9780802120564. OCLC 793580575.