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The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780573628436
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Published: Feb 4 2022
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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.
ÿ 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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