Nicola as Elena
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Directed by: Sarah Meadows Written by: Chris Jury Cast Members: Michelle Terrym Stephen Tompkinson, Phyllis Logan Venue: Park Theatre Production Dates: September 14, 2015 Genre: Drama |
synopsis
This play tells the tragic story of Nadya Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin. By 1929, she was 28 and had given Stalin two children but against Stalin’s wishes, she enrolled at the newly established Industrial academy to study synthetic fibres. There she made friends with two Ukrainian students who told her the horrors of the rural famines created by her husband’s ‘Great Breakthrough’. Nadya heroically tried to confront her husband about these horrors and the fatal results of that tragic confrontation.
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