in the United States, and then only in an English translation. This production was based on Meyerhold's design and featured Prokofiev's music, together with supplemental music by Peter Westergaard. Chester Dunning, Caryl Emerson, and Sergei Fomichev's The Uncensored Boris Godunov seeks to rescue Pushkin's play from obscurity. The Royal Shakespeare Company staged the British premiere of the original 1825 edition at Stratford on Avon in the autumn of 2012. The play had been translated into English by Adrian Mitchell. Characters Boris Godunov, boyar, later Tsar Fyodor, his son Kseniya, his daughter Kseniya's Nurse Prince Shuyskiy, boyar Prince Vorotinskiy, boyar Shchelkalov, Secretary of the Duma Pimen, monk and chronicler Grigoriy Otrepyev, monk, later Dmitriy, the Pretender Patriarch, Abbot of the Chudov Monastery. Misail, wandering monk Varlaam, wandering monk Afanasiy Mikhailovich Pushkin, friend of Prince Shuyskiy Gabriel Pushkin, his nephew Semyon Nikitich Godunov, secret agent of Boris Godunov Prince Kurbsky, disgraced boyar Khrushchov, disgraced boyar Karela, a Cossack Prince Vishnevetskiy Mniszech, Voyevoda of Sambor Marina, his daughter Ruzya, her chambermaid Basmanov, a Russian officer Marzharet, officer of Boris Rozen, officer of Boris Mosalskiy, boyar Hostess of the Inn Boyars, People, Peasants, Inspectors, Officers, Attendants, Guests, a Catholic Priest, a Polish Noble, a Poet, an Idiot, a Beggar, Gentlemen, Guards, Soldiers, Ladies, Gentleman, Boys, Servants Synopsis Scene 1 – Kremlin Palaces Scene 2 – Red Square Scene 3 – Novodevichiy Monastery Scene 4 – Kremlin Palaces Scene 5 – Night; A Cell in the Chudov Monastery Scene 6 – The Fence of the Monastery (Note: Deleted from the published drama) Scene 7 – Palaces of the Patriarch Scene 8 – The Tsar's Palaces Scene 9 – An Inn on the Lithuanian Border Scene 10 – Moscow; The Home of Shuyskiy Scene 11 – The Tsar's Palaces Scene 12 – Kraków; The Home of Vishnevetskiy Scene 13 – Castle of the Voyevoda Mniszech in Sambor (Note: also deleted from many editions) Scene 14 – A Suite of Lighted Rooms Scene 15 – Night; A Garden; A Fountain Scene 16 – The Lithuanian Frontier Scene 17 – The Tsar's Duma Scene 18 – Plain near Novgorod-Seversk Scene 19 – Square before a Cathedral in Moscow Scene 20 – Sevsk Scene 21 – A Forest Scene 22 – Moscow; The Tsar's Palaces Scene 23 – A Tent Scene 24 – Lobnoye Mesto (Red Square) Scene 25 – The Kremlin; The House of Boris Historical basis A