Nikolai and the Others

Description

In Nikolai and the Others Richard Nelson imagines the relationships between Balanchine and Stravinsky, their friends, lovers, wives and ex-wives, supporters and dancers, at the time of their historic collaboration on the ballet Orpheus. Later that year, Orpheus would be the spectacular inaugural production of the newly formed New York City Ballet. The play also explores the controversial ways American art and artistic institutions were funded at the outset of the Cold War.

Richard Nelson is an award-winning playwright whose work for the stage includes Some Americans Abroad, Two Shakespearean Actors, James Joyces The Dead and the acclaimed Apple family play cycle. His screenplays include Ethan Frome and Hyde Park on Hudson.

Nikolai sometimes summons both a sense of place and displacement with such naturalness that you forget that youre watching titans at play * The New York Times * An engrossing work that transports Chekhov to the threshold of the Cold War marvellous * New York Magazine *