Anastasia is attempting to look regal in her mother’s tiara and her father’s military medals. Beneath her tunic, however, she wears no trousers. The look reflects her state of mind: in her head, she is the only remaining member of the imperial Romanov family, a survivor of a Bolshevik firing squad, but her story is as flimsy as her legs are bare.
In this entertaining lunchtime play by Jonny Donahoe – he of Jonny and the Baptists fame – Anastasia keeps finding herself in the same Berlin police station explaining how she has ended up at the bottom of a canal again. [READ MORE]