Collaborators

By National TheatreArts Performing Arts

Collaborators episodes

June 12, 2012 Orlando Figes with Jacqueline Defferary and Alex Jennings
In Just Send Me Word, the historian recounts the true love story of two young Muscovites, whose smuggled letters to one another form a detailed and agonizing account of life in Stalin’s Soviet Union.
Orlando Figes talks to Stephanie Merritt and introduces a selection of the letters read by Jacqueline Defferary and Alex Jennings from the cast of Collaborators.
40 min
April 18, 2012 John Hodge on dramatising Stalin
John Hodge talks about how he created the character of Stalin in his new play Collaborators.
3 min
April 18, 2012 Collaborators - about the play
A short film about the play Collaborators written by John Hodge, which fictionalises the relationship between famous Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov and Stalin.
5 min
April 18, 2012 Dr. Julie Curtis on Mikhail Bulgakov
Dr. Julie Curtis is the UK's leading research specialist on Bulgakov. She is a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and her recent publications include "Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov, a Life in Letters and Diaries" and "Bulgakov's Last Decade: The Writer as Hero".
22 min

About Collaborators

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Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he’s offered a…