Genre:
Drama
Runtime:
75 - 85 mins
Cast:
1 male(s), 5 female(s), gender-flexible
Synopsis:
ANASTASIA - priveleged, pretty, completely out of her element, is sent to a Siberian Gulag after she kills her abusive husband to protect her son; and is thrown into a bunkhouse with four other women.
As Anastasia shifts the power base, old alliances break up and reform, leaving Anastasia in a desperate fight just to have the chance to survive for a few days more in a situation she knows she will never live through.
To save herself, Anastasia must take on all the others, and then unite them for a desperate escape attempt.
Notes:
Finalist 2010 Woodward/Newman Drama Award
Winner of the 2009/2010 Joining Sword and Pen Competition
Winner 2010 Off Broadway Playwrights Competition
Premiere March 19th 2010, Chicago.
Charity benefit, June 2010, Seattle.
Produced at Out North Contemporary Art House, Anchorage. 2013
Performed at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK 2013
Produced by Sacred Fools Theatre Co, Los Angeles 2016
Published by Next Stage Press
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