Dress rehearsal
Subtitle: a story in four acts and five chapters
By: Maria R. Bloshteyn.
Contributors: Bloshteyn, Maria R., 1971-; Galich, Aleksandr, 1918-1977.
Publisher: Slavica
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Work titles: Generalʹnai︠a︡ repetit︠s︡ii︠a︡.
Description: In "Dress Rehearsal," noted dissident author and playwright Alexander Galich intersperses the text of his play "Sailor's Rest," banned by the Soviet government, with his reflections on growing up Jewish in the Soviet Union and the rise of official anti-Semitism in the USSR after the Second World War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Alexander Galich : biographical dateline; title: Dress rehearsal; title: Appendix A : Alexander Galich's poems cited in Dress rehearsal (Behind seven fences; title: Lenochka; title: By the rivers of Babylon; title: Falling asleep and waking up; title: The train; title: Clouds; title: The old prince; title: A song dedicated to my mother; title: Hospital jig; title: To the memory of Boris Leonidovich Pasternak; title: Sacred spring; title: A song about unhappy conjurers; title: Numbers; title: "Comrades, I'll tell you like it is"; title: The jester's second song; title: A Petersburg romance); title: Appendix B : Alexander Galich's filmography; title: Appendix C : Alexander Galich's plays.