ANNENKOV Yuri Pavlovitch (1889 - 1974) - Theater scenarios, - Lot 163

ANNENKOV Yuri Pavlovitch (1889 - 1974) - Theater scenarios, ANNENKOV directed two plays based on Leonide ANDREIEV, Russian author and playwright (1871-1919). - "LE GOUFFRE" at Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse in January 1947 43-page typescript in French with handwritten corrections The action takes place in St. Petersburg in 1904 and deals with the assassination of the Minister of the Interior by terrorists. But above all, it is a Dostoyevskian reflection on good and evil, innocence and depravity, through the confrontation of the two main characters = Sergei, the terrorist, and Liuba, the prostitute. "PASSAGE" or "LA VIE DE L'HOMME" - 41-page typescript in French with numerous handwritten corrections - and English translation - typescript with corrections Stage adaptation in French of the original play by Léonide ANDREIEV performed at the Moscow Art Theater in 1907. It consists of 5 tableaux, each illustrating a stage of life, from birth to death. The last scene, that of decay, ends with the gossips saying: "What's happened? - "Nothing serious, sister - the man is dead!"