Genre: Drama
Director: Christine Vinh Weems
Off
Off Broadway Playhouse, NYC, December 2008
Starring Beth Adler, Molly Church, Ashley Diane Currie, Dianna Lora*,
Emily Murray*, Brooklyn Scalzo*,
Sara Towber*, Nora Vetter, Lexi Winsor*
*appear courtesy of
Actors Equity Association
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The
Emma Goldman Theatre Brigade, a radical feminist theatre group, is at
it
again - implementing their innovative lottery system to insure
theatrical
equality. They each draw the role they will play out of a hat each
night before
the show, but tonight there's a critic in the audience and t he
sisterhood is
put to the test when some of them don't draw the role they want. What
follows
is the trial of five women accused of denying Anastasia Romanov, the
infamous
daughter of Tsar Nicholas, of her identity where the audience becomes
judge and
jury. They rule on objections during the course of the play, creating a
new
show with every performance.
A courtroom drama based on history wrapped in a
backstage farce with a healthy dose of audience participation thrown in
for
good measure, The
Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women presents a
profoundly
engaging excursion into the interactions of women who are survivors and
abusers.
Review:
"the whole company showed an amazing amount of togetherness, and yet
were no feeling of being over-rehearsed, and that it felt like real
conversations rather than line readings. Instead of sounding like the
cattiness of The Women, it was more like, well,
life. The
cast is strong, showing many shades on a theme, and yet staying
strongly within character(s), even when sitting to the side of the main
action."
Posted by Robert
Barry Francos
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