Vassa Zheleznova (play)

Vassa Zheleznova (Russian: Васса Железнова) is a play by Russian writer Maxim Gorky.^[1] He wrote and published the play in 1910. It was not performed until 5 July 1936 in Leningrad after Gorky wrote a new version in 1935.

The play was the basis of several films in the Soviet Union, e.g. the 1953 film of the same name,^[2] and in France^[3] and Germany.^[4]

In 2016, Emily Juniper presented a new version of the play at Southwark Playhouse set in 1990s Liverpool during a dock workers strike.^[5]