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Tom
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Tara Fitzgerald plays Dorothea.
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LAUGHTER IN LENINGRAD
by Dorothea Eltenton,
directed by Pam Fraser Solomon and dramatised by Lisa Evans.
Monday to Friday, 3 June to 7 June 2002.
Dorothea Eltenton is an English middleclass, left-wing
thinker. When her husband is offered a job in Leningrad, the
family, unperturbed by Russia's bad press in the West, does
not hesitate to leave comfort and security for a journey
across Europe where they witness the results of revolution,
first hand.
Laughter In Leningrad opens in 1933
with Dorothea and her two young children sailing to the Soviet
Union to join her scientist husband, George. Theirs is a
strong marriage with a shared idealistic vision of their
adopted country. Once established in Leningrad, Dorothea
offers us layers of anecdotes about her home, incessant
cockroach infestations, her new friends, politics and the
first ever election, romance, holidays in the Crimea,
accidents and illness, and the birth of their third child.
CAST:
Dolly (Dorothea) - Tara Fitzgerald
George
- Tom Goodman-Hill
Mucya - Larissa Kouznetsova
Shura -
Ivan Marevich
Valya - Cleo Sylvestre
Anoushka - Patricia
Perry
Lil - Gemma Saunders
Mike - Maxwell
Harris-Tharp
Yuri - Pavel Rimburg
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