A Failed Performance: Short Plays & Scenes by Daniil Kharms

A Failed Performance Short Plays & Scenes by Daniil Kharms Translated by C Dylan Basset & Emma Winsor Wood $19.95  People disappear without explanation. The government takes hostages. War and death occur without reason or meaning. The cycle of poverty and deprivation proliferates. A Failed Performance is a collection of bizarre and darkly humorous plays and scenes from the Russian avant-garde writer Daniil Kharms. This collection—the first volume in English dedicated entirely to Kharms's dramatic works—includes his major stage plays Elizaveta Bam and Lapa as well as lesser-known sketches and hybrid poem-plays, most of which were never published or performed during his lifetime.   Hybrid, Avant-Garde, Translation Cast: Kings of Breath Mints, Queens of Dog Hair, Etc. Cover Art: "Suprematism" (1915) by Kazimir Malevich   REVIEWS 3:AM Magazine   PRAISE Kharms's writing for me is like molecules that combine and re-combust an expected time creating another world. That is on one hand