To fully appreciate the 1975 Maly Theatre production of Maxim Gorky’s The False Coin (Фальшивая монета), it is highly effective to move past traditional Soviet analytical lenses, which often tried to force Gorky’s early work into a standard template of class struggle, and view it through a Western modernist prism.
Comedies of Menace: Gorky vs. Pinter
To fully appreciate the 1975 Maly Theatre production of Maxim Gorky’s The False Coin (Фальшивая монета), it is highly effective to move past traditional Soviet analytical lenses, which often tried to force Gorky’s early work into a standard template of class struggle, and view it through a Western modernist prism.