![]() ![]() This invented language could have fooled any non-Russian speaker in the audience. What is especially impressive is the use of Grammelot during some episodes (a type of gibberish language reminiscent of the tradition of the Commedia dell’arte). The flashbacks to Ruslan’s past, including his fond memories growing up, manage to provide some relief from the horrors of the prison camps. ![]() One of the most impressive features of the play is the treatment of time. ![]() With the whole cast on stage, each simultaneously switches in and out of human and animal roles following the Masters commands: ‘Prisoners! Soldiers! Dogs!’Īdapting a play from a novel is no easy task for any writer and Faithful Ruslan, overall, portrays the main events well. The play captures this fine line in the very opening scene. Indeed, it seems that the animals are the most humane and compassionate characters throughout the drama and the humans, the soldiers, the most brutal. Max Keeble’s superb interpretation of the sensitive, faithful, and intelligent Ruslan makes us question who exactly are the ‘animals’. To celebrate this occasion, Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre placed centre stage Stalin’s Gulag that is, a play which recounts the trauma of a Russian concentration camp through the perspective of Ruslan – a guard dog. Faithful Ruslan marks the centenary of the Russian revolution. ![]()
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