One character in this play recites a prose poem about the Edelweiss, and that character is given great attention at a later poetry reading when the gathered characters are attempting to cover up the comparison one character makes between his wife and Balaam's ass. Another character in this work crushes a flower after the woman who gives it to him states that it was meant for his former self as she remembered him giving a reading at her school. Another character torments her husband by suggesting that they both commit suicide but insisting that he shoot himself first because she is afraid he will cheat. Later, Ryumin shoots himself in the shoulder in a botched suicide
One character in this play recites a prose poem about the Edelweiss, and that character is given great attention at a later poetry reading when the gathered characters are attempting to cover up the comparison one character makes between his wife and Balaam's ass. Another character in this work crushes a flower after the woman who gives it to him states that it was meant for his former self as she remembered him giving a reading at her school. Another character torments her husband by suggesting that they both commit suicide but insisting that he shoot himself first because she is afraid he will cheat. Later, Ryumin shoots himself in the shoulder in a botched suicide attempt, and Dvoetochie agrees to take in Vlass, who wishes to leave Maria Lvovna. FTP, name this Maxim Gorky play in which Suslov, Varvara, and Bassov are members of the titular group of people.
One character in this play recites a prose poem about the Edelweiss, and that character is given great attention at a later poetry reading when the gathered characters are attempting to cover up the comparison one character makes between his wife and Balaam's ass.
{Summerfolk} or {Dachniki}