The Russian Season Presents a Developmental Reading of Playing Dead

The New Russian Drama Season continues . . . .
Please join us for a developmental reading of a new play in translation

Playing Dead
By The Presnyakov Brothers
Translated by Juanita Rockwell
With Yury Urnov

Monday, November 16, 2009
Main Stage Theatre
7:30 pm

Valya is a young man making ends meet by working for the police as a stand-in for victims at crime scene investigations. The crimes people commit these days are astonishing ­ no one seems to have a conscience. And the world is changing so fast: Valyaıs mother doesnıt understand him, he doesnıt understand his girlfriend, the police captain is totally baffled by everything. Only Valyaıs dead father ­ a spectral figure who returns from the other world to give his son advice ­ has any authority for Valya. But is there any place left at all for authority in society? Does anything have any meaning when everything seems like a mad rush for insanity and death?

Admission is free.

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