Starting: Wednesday, May 28 2008 Ending: Saturday, July 05 2008
The Russian Play & Essay, a Hannah Moscovitch double bill featuring two fascinating one act plays presented together. The plays deal with the issue of how much – or how little – women's lives have changed in the last 100 years. Set in Russia in the 1920s, The Russian Play revolves around Sonya, a teenage flower-shop girl who falls in love with a married gravedigger. It’s a bittersweet tribute to the “dangerous joys” of love. In the “splendid, darkly ironic” Essay, a first-year student writing a controversial essay on an obscure female historical figure is drawn into a cat-and-mouse debate with her patronizing professor and the manipulative history department head. Idealism and ethics are laid to waste in this intellectual battlefield. (Contains coarse language.)
