The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women

Gage, Carolyn

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A play with intense audience participation! Engrossing, controversial courtroom drama, where the audience must serve as judge and jury, deciding motions and verdict, in a case against the five women who betrayed the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, the last surviving daughter of the Tsar of Russia. Complex ethical questions on a set of folding chairs. The Anastasia Trials is a farcical, but profoundly engaging excursion into the hidden world of ethics for women who are both survivors and perpetrators of abuse toward women. The format is a play-within-a-play, where a radical feminist theatre company comes together in order to perform a courtroom drama. The play is shaped by the audience decisions to overrule or sustain the attorneys' motions, and every night's audience sees a different play. In presenting the play, the Emma Goldman Theatre Brigade has instituted a new system to insure equal opportunity for the actors: a lottery. As the women assemble to draw their roles from the hat for the evening's performance, sisterhood is put to the test. The performance itself is a conspiracy trial against five women accused of denying a woman her identity. The plaintiff is none other than Anastasia Romanov, sole survivor of the massacre of the Russian imperial family in 1918. ¿Elegantly conceived...A feminist Noises Off. - Washington City Press Powerful. -San Diego Lesbian Press Farce, social history, debate play, agitprop, audience participation melodrama, satire [that] makes the head reel! -San Diego Union Tribune Wild... It's lively and moves quickly... Very funny yet poignant. -Washington Blade Carolyn Gage's raucous, multilayered script explores issues of empathy, loyalty, and betrayal among women... --The Washington Post. Verdict: An unexpected delight... --Miami Herald, FL. ... farcical humor, imaginative plot twists, and just pure theatrical fun... --South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale. ... fascinating and complex play...--Fresno Beehive.com I am constantly amazed at Carolyn's ability to make complex social issues not only accessible but also irresistibly fascinating... the play... [The Anastasia Trials ] touched us, made us laugh and gripped us in a white-knuckle intensity usually found only in Hitchcock films. --R.J. McComish, Literary Manager of the Portland Stage Company, Portland, Maine. ... fabulously interesting, brilliantly thought-provoking and exquisitely funny... masterpiece of feminist theater... --off our backs, Washington, DC. Each performance could potentially have a different result and many students saw every performance just so they could see how the show ended.--At Oldfields, Glencoe, MD.
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Schrijver
Gage, Carolyn
Titel
The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women
Uitgever
Samuel French Ltd
Jaar
2022
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
100
Gewicht
120 gr
EAN
9780573628436
Afmetingen
202 x 127 x 8 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback / softback

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