Boris Godunov and Little Tragedies

A drama of ambition, murder, remorse and retribution, Boris Godunov charts the decline of a Russian statesman, whose dynastic aims were foiled by a guilty past and an audacious upstart. Based on history and inspired by Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkins daring masterwork is presented here in its rarely published uncensored version of 1825. Set in Vienna, Flanders, Madrid and London, Pushkins celebrated Little Tragedies Mozart and Salieri, The Mean-Spirited Knight, The Stone Guest and A Feast during the Plague each focus on a protagonists driving obsession with status, money, sex or risk-taking and its devastating consequences.