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The drunks / Mikhail and Vsyacheslav Durnenkov ; translated by Sasha Dugdale.

General note: First performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 21 August 2009. UK-SuSCL Summary, etc: A provincial town somewhere in Russia. A shell-shocked soldier downs vodka on his return from the frontline in Chechnya. As he arrives home he stumbles into the epicentre of an extraordinary power struggle that threatens to tear the town apart. Language note: Translated from the Russian.