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The Teddy Bears' Picnic & The Potsdam Quartet

The Teddy Bears' Picnic & The Potsdam Quartet $14.99

David Pinner

Published by Oberon

'The Teddy Bears' Picnic' and 'The Potsdam Quartet' complete David Pinner's trilogy of plays featuring Joseph Stalin. The third play in the trilogy, 'Lenin in Love', was published by Oberon Books in October 2000

The Teddy Bears' Picnic explores the personal and professional conflicts between a group of musicians hired to play for Stalin, Truman, Churchill and Atlee at the Potsdam Conference in 1945

The musicians are confined to an anteroom in between playing for The Big Four. The leaders never appear, but their presence looms over the action

In The Potsdam Quartet Stalin takes centre stage, mainly in his role as the smiling, malignant host of the dinner parties held at his country dacha

His Politburo were forced to attend such parties, which combined terror with practical jokes

"David Pinner's hybrid of Chekovian comedy with a Marlovian hero works superbly" ~ The Independent (The Teddy Bear's Picnic)

"David Pinner is a recording angel with a mean pen" ~ Clive Barnes, New York Post (The Potsdam Quartet)

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