The Russian Play
By Company Theatre Crisis and Absit Omen Theatre
Toronto, Ontario
Written by Hannah Moscovitch
Directed by Natasha Mytnowych
Arts Court Theatre
50 minutes, no intermission


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Set amidst the doomed men and rotten ideals of Stalinist Russia, The Russian Play tells the story of Sonya, a flower-shop girl from the small town of Vladekstov, who falls in love with a charming and shadowy gravedigger from Moscow. The Russian Play is the heart-wrenching tale of a young girl grappling with the sharp edges of love and death in a time of radically shifting social and political paradigms – a bleak, bittersweet and darkly ironic ode to the dangerous joys of love.

Ottawa native Hannah Moscovitch has created a little Brechtian jewel; we are both engaged intellectually and deeply moved by the character’s plight.
MARY VINGOE

It’s that rarest of all theatrical experiments: a clever satire with a beating heart.
Kamal al-Solaylee THE GLOBE AND MAIL

…incredibly powerful with breathtaking emotion…A Must-See.
TORONTO STAR