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Kalashnikov: In the Woods by the Lake

Kalashnikov: In the Woods by the Lake

Fraser Grace (Author)
February 2012
Trade Paperback · 96 Pages
$20.95 U.S. · $22.99 CAN
ISBN 9781849432429
Oberon Books
 

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Description

A provocative play about Mikhail Kalashnikov—the Russian inventor of the AK47 assault rifle, and a decorated Soviet hero. Set in Kalashnikov's dacha amidst the dark woods and waters of a fairy tale Russian landscape, a young journalist, Volkov, comes to interview the elderly Kalashnikov about his time on the front line and his subsequent invention of the AK-47.

About the Author

FRASER GRACE is a multi award winning playwright whose acclaimed Breakfast with Mugabe (Directed for the RSC by Antony Sher)transferred to the West End and won the 2006 John Whiting Award. Other plays include Perpetua (Winner of the Verity Bargate Award), Frobisher's Gold, The Lifesavers (nominated for the 2009 TMA/Stage Awards) and most recently King David: Man of Blood , described by The Guardian as urgent and bang up to date…gripping and exceptionally meaty, delivered with a light touch and a compassion for human fallibility.