Paulinka (play)
Paulinka (Belarusian: Паўлінка) is a comedy play in two parts by the Belarusian poet and writer Yanka Kupala.[1] Written in 1912, it was first printed in 1913 in St. Petersburg by the publisher The Sun Will Peek into Our Window As Well (be:Загляне сонца і ў наша аконца).[2][3]
Plot
Paulinka is the daughter of a petty nobleman (a village szlachcic), Sciapan Krynicki. She falls in love with the local teacher Yakim Saroka. Her father disapproves of this, planning to marry her to a wealthier szlachcic, Bykovsky. Paulinka and Saroka are planning to run away, but Yakim is arrested for his revolutionary views, ratted out by Bykovsky.
Play directors often replace the finale with a more optimistic one: the pair does run away.[3]
History
The play grew out of Kupala's unfinished short story А вербы шумелі (And the Willows Rustled).[3] It is suggested that the prototype of Paulinka was Kupala's lyrical friend Paulina Myadzyolka, but in later years she denied this.[4] Some also claim that Myadzyolka was the first one to play Paulinka, which is not true: the first amateur performance of Paulinka, starring Sofya Markevich, was in Vilnius in January 13, and Myadzyolka appeared the next month in an amateur performance in St.Petersburg.[4]
Film adaptations
In 1952 a Russian-language TV play was released, directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi and starring Lyudmila Senchina. In 1972 Belarusfilm released the feature-length musical film After the Fair starring Lyudmila Senchina, with a screenplay by Andrey Makayonak and directed by Yuri Tsvetkov.
References
- ↑ "Паўлінка". Янка Купала. Беларуская Палічка. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
- ↑ Паўлінка. Живая библиотека. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - 1 2 3 "«Паўлінка» восьмы дзясятак на купалаўскай сцэне"
- 1 2 "Первая Павлинка Купаловского театра получила роль 19-летней барышни, когда ей было уже 40, а играть в спектакле продолжала до 60!"