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    Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress
    Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress
    Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress
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    Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress

    By Bernard Shaw

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2003
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      Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress - Bernard Shaw

      Project Gutenberg's Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress, by George Bernard Shaw

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      Title: Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress

      Author: George Bernard Shaw

      Release Date: January 15, 2009 [EBook #3485]

      Last Updated: December 10, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS ***

      Produced by Eve Sobol, and David Widger

      ANNAJANSKA,

      THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS

      By George Bernard Shaw

      ANNAJANSKA is frankly a bravura piece. The modern variety theatre demands for its turns little plays called sketches, to last twenty minutes or so, and to enable some favorite performer to make a brief but dazzling appearance on some barely passable dramatic pretext. Miss Lillah McCarthy and I, as author and actress, have helped to make one another famous on many serious occasions, from Man and Superman to Androcles; and Mr Charles Ricketts has not disdained to snatch moments from his painting and sculpture to design some wonderful dresses for us. We three unbent as Mrs Siddons, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Dr Johnson might have unbent, to devise a turn for the Coliseum variety theatre. Not that we would set down the art of the variety theatre as something to be condescended to, or our own art as elephantine. We should rather crave indulgence as three novices fresh from the awful legitimacy of the highbrow theatre.

      Well, Miss McCarthy and Mr Ricketts justified themselves easily in the glamor of the footlights, to the strains of Tchaikovsky's 1812. I fear I did not. I have received only one compliment on my share; and that was from a friend who said, It is the only one of your works that is not too long. So I have made it a page or two longer, according to my own precept: EMBRACE YOUR REPROACHES: THEY ARE OFTEN GLORIES IN DISGUISE.

      Annajanska was first performed at the Coliseum Theatre in London on the 21st January, 1918, with Lillah McCarthy as the Grand Duchess, Henry Miller as Schneidekind, and Randle Ayrton as General Strammfest.

      ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS

      The General's office in a military station on the east front in Beotia. An office table with a telephone, writing materials, official papers, etc., is set across the room. At the end of

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