Award winning playwright, Meg Miroshnik casts a spell with The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls. Once upon a time—in 2005—a twenty-year-old girl named Annie returned to her native Russia to brush up on the language and lose her American accent. Underneath a glamorous Post-Soviet Moscow studded with dangerously high heels, designer bags, and luxe fur coats, she discovers an enchanted motherland teeming with evil stepmothers, wicked witches, and ravenous bears.
Annie must learn how to become the heroine of a story more mysterious and treacherous than any childhood fairy tale: her own. This subversive story haunts the audience, and carries a powerful message for young women living in a world where not everything ends up happily ever after.
“Russian culture is rife with myth and magic. ‘The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls’ takes place in a similar kind of dreamland. IN THIS DREAMLAND, PEOPLE SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN.” – New York Times,
TICKETS: Tickets are free and available one week before the show at the Theatre Box Office in the main lobby of Ophelia Parrish building. Because of limited seating, advance tickets are recommended. Tickets must be picked up in person in advance, except for our out of town guests. Reservations for out of town guests only may be made by phone 660-785-4515 and those tickets will be held at the box office until 15 minutes before show time.