Liudmila Razumovskaia
, b. 1946
Liudmila Razumovskaia is a Russian playwright best known for her play Dear Miss Elena written in 1980. Born in Riga, she studied at the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema (now Russian State Institute of Performing Arts) at the theatrical studies department (1974), and at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (1979). She often emphasizes that she wanted to become an actress, she started to write dramas by accident. Her plays usually reveal problems of society, especially problems of women. They were staged at many theatres in Russia, Europe, and the United States, however they were banned for several years in 1980s in the USSR as too provocative for the Soviet stage and misrepresenting the Soviet reality. She also wrote a play Medea but it is not addressed to children and youths.
Sources:
Elena Dobriakova, Людмила Разумовская “Вспомните, как мучился Раскольников…” [Liudmila Razumovskaia, “Recall the suffering of Raskol’nikov…”], Nevskoe vremia, April 6, 2007, nvspb.ru (accessed: September 30, 2019)
John Freedman, Interview with Lyudmila Razumovskaya, Chicago, 1990, Blogs and Stray Articles, November 13, 2018, johnfreedmanarchive.wordpress.com (accessed: September 30, 2019)
Profile at kino-teatr.ru (accessed: September 30, 2019)
Bio prepared by Hanna Paulouskaya, University of Warsaw, hannapa@al.uw.edu.pl
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