LSE Language Centre event
Date: Wednesday 9 February 2011
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Shaw Library, Old Building
In 1931 George Bernard Shaw, a Nobel Prize winning playwright, author of Pygmalion and, as a Fabian, instrumental in the setting up of LSE, made a visit to the fledgling USSR, which culminated in a major meeting with Joseph Stalin. The scenes which greeted his arrival in the USSR, as a socialist writer sympathetic to the regime, were satirised in a 1932 Russian play Fourteen Little Red Huts by Andrei Platonov. Banned in his lifetime, we now present a rare modern production of the opening act of the play.
The evening will be complemented by a drinks reception, a documentary film and expert discussion of the political and literary implications of the visit and will compare Shaw’s reputation in the West and his reception in Communist Russia.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, contact Dr Angus Wrenn (A.J.Wrenn@lse.ac.uk) and Dr Olga Sobolev (O.Sobolev@lse.ac.uk).
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