Twenty-one years after trekking 430 miles on foot with his family from northern Ethiopia to Sudan, then getting flown to Israel, Yossi Vassa is once again in a country of black people: Jamaica. The ...

My wife Julie, above, is a fan girl of Sister Vassa Larin (right), the Russian Orthodox nun, professor, and leader of an international group of devotees called the Zillions, who await their every ...

Until you realise that ‘Vassa’ is basically one big arrow pointing to the ills of Russian capitalism, nothing about it makes much sense. Adapted by Mike Bartlett, Maxim Gorky’s 1910 play is ...

Maxim Gorky's Vassa Zheleznova is currently playing at the Almeida Theatre, in a new adaptation from Mike Bartlett - a playwright of brilliant achievements. The last time Gorky's play had a version of ...

An updating of Gorky’s play loses the moral ambiguity surrounding its female protagonist and makes little sense uprooted from its historial context Maxim Gorky’s play exists in two versions – one ...

Vassa opens with a subtitle projected onto a strip of wood: 'capitalism is showing its age, Act 1.' A cinematic score adds to the impression of early 20th century as the curtain unfolds to reveal a ...

Two planks are lowered on to the stage at the start of Mike Bartlett’s disgracefully funny adaptation of Vassa. They descend in deadpan sequence. One reads, “This play is set before a revolution.” The ...

At least, that’s how the playwright conceived it when he revised his 1909 text, under Stalinist pressure, in 1935. But now Emily Juniper has come up with a new version for theatre company The Faction ...

Siobhan Redmond is impressive as a tyrannical mother trying to rescue her debt-ridden family in Tinuke Craig’s strangely rootless production This production of Maxim Gorky’s play suffered a setback ...