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The Power of Darkness
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The Act takes place in autumn in a large village. The Scene represents Peter’s roomy hut. Peter is sitting on a wooden bench, mending a horse-collar. Anísya and Akoulína are spinning, and singing a part-song.
PETER [looking out of the window] The horses have got loose again. If we don’t look out they’ll be killing the colt. Nikíta! Hey, Nikíta! Is the fellow deaf? [Listens. To the women] Shut up, one can’t hear anything.
NIKÍTA [from outside] What?
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Plays Complete Edition, Including the Posthumous Plays
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The Power of Darkness, Tolstoy’s first and greatest play, was not written until he was fifty-eight years of age, and it was not allowed to be performed in Russia till some years later. Both there and elsewhere abroad it was highly successful on the stage, as was also the comedy, Fruits of Culture, which he wrote three years later, to be performed by his own family and their friends.
The only other play published during his lifetime, The First Distiller, is a very… More >>
Plays Complete Edition, Including the Posthumous Plays
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