This weekend only!

The Theater Department and the 2012 Theater Majors Present:

The Culminating Experience

RUSSIAN ROMANCE
by Murphy Guyer


Directed by: Veronica Haakonsen '12
Set Design by: Serena Nelson '12
Costume Design by: Susan Hakes '12
Sound Design by: Ben Blier '13
Stage Management by: Nick O'Leary '14


STARRING:
Olivia Baptista '12
Tomo Berry '12
Charlyn Brea '12
Billy Calder '12
Max Hunter '13
Mia Jessup '12
Aidan Nelson '12

MOORE THEATER
MAY 25, 26 @ 8PM
MAY 27 @ 2PM

Russian Romance is a comedy of mistaken identities taking place in the year after  
the fall of the Soviet Union. Ivan Verminitsky has recently received acclaim for  
the publication of his book The Red Ladder. On a book tour in America, Ivan meets  
(and drinks copious amounts of vodka with) Russian Literature professor Brad Bradley.  
When Ivan refuses to go with his wife to schmooze with his rich relatives in Saratoga  
Springs the beautiful, crude, and wily Svetlana coerces Brad Bradley to pose as  
her husband and come with her to extort his rich family into getting them green  
cards. Hilarity ensues as these two enter into the privileged and dysfunctional  
world of these New York socialites which has also been invaded by the mysterious  
Michael who knows some dark secrets from Ivan's past. A romantic idealization  
of beautiful Russian suffering clashes with the reality of the tumultuous finals  
years of the USSR police state in this "intellectual's farce."