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'It's the 1950s. Bulgaria. Every seventh person is an informer for State Security. Stalin is in power. A woman lives alone. The typewriters of the Secret Services tap-tap-tap away as they record the lives of people. What is true and what is a lie? The camps are hill of those who are deemed enemies, among them, her husband. The woman writes stones. Ogres, princesses, biblical stories. Reality is more frightening than any story. A room of memory, secrets and archives. The door opens. The dust is unsettled for a moment.'
Source: La Mama Theatre program.
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Epigraph: Totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. (Hannah Arendt)
(Epigraph appears in program.)
Production Details
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Presented (as a work in progress) at La Mama Theatre, Carlton, 8-9 November 2017.
Director: John Bolton.
Designer: Adrienne Chisholm.
Lighting Designer: Bronwyn Pringle.
Cast: Bagryana Popov.
Presented under the title Anna at La Mama Courthouse, 11-22 December 2019.
Director: John Bolton.
Designer: Lara Week.
Lighting Designer: Bronwyn Pringle.
Cast: Bagryana Popov.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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cBulgaria,cEastern Europe, Europe,
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cBulgaria,cEastern Europe, Europe,
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