# Gagarin Way

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'''''Gagarin Way''''' is a play by [Scottish](/source/Scotland) playwright [Gregory Burke](/source/Gregory_Burke), named after a street in the West [Fife](/source/Fife) village of [Lumphinnans](/source/Lumphinnans), on the edge of [Cowdenbeath](/source/Cowdenbeath). The play documents the disappearance of [socialism](/source/socialism) from an area where political radicalism was once a defining characteristic of the population. ''Gagarin Way'' debuted at the [Traverse Theatre](/source/Traverse_Theatre),<ref>{{cite web|title=Gagarin Way |url=http://www.traverse.co.uk/gagarin_way.html |publisher=Traverse Theatre |accessdate=15 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720172702/http://www.traverse.co.uk/gagarin_way.html |archivedate=July 20, 2008 }}</ref> [Edinburgh](/source/Edinburgh), in July 2001, before transferring to the [National Theatre](/source/Royal_National_Theatre)<ref>{{cite web |title=Gagarin Way |url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/1201/productions/gagarin-way.html |date=2001 |publisher=National Theatre |accessdate=15 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809071523/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/1201/productions/gagarin-way.html |archive-date=9 August 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the [West End](/source/West_End_theatre) in London. It was translated into 20 languages and toured the world.

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Category:Plays set in Scotland
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