Written in 1982 by David Pownall and set in 1948, the play pits Stalin and his Cultural Commissar against renowned composers Shostakovich and Prokofiev, with Stalin bent on convincing the artists to create in the service of the working class.
Why shouldn’t their music be more attuned to the sensibilities of that audience?
The musicians know Stalin could be persuasive. After succeeding Lenin in 1924 and, to remain in power, he had killed hundreds of…
Writer and psychiatrist. Writing is thinking -> integrating -> connecting -> enhancing our being. Though we can think without writing.