A Bright Swarm of Beetles
By Don Zolidis
A Bright Swarm of Beetles is a play that needs 10 performers (4 women, 6 men). Licensed by Playscripts.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 10 performers
- Roles
- 4 women, 6 men
- Cast notes
- 6 men, 4 women, 0 any gender
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- drama
- Licensor
- Playscripts
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Synopsis
Based on actual events, A Bright Swarm of Beetles follows the breathtaking career of the greatest writer of the Soviet Union: Mikhail Bulgakov. From his beginnings in the Red revolution as a nearly homeless opium addict to the dizzying heights of literary stardom, Bulgakov struggles to write in a world fraught with madness and betrayal. After his work is denounced and banned, Bulgakov is offered a chance at redemption by the sinister dictator Joseph Stalin -- but he must choose between his art a
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