The Guardian 1 October 2024

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]

By Mark Fisher

MARK FISHER is a freelance theatre critic and feature writer based in Edinburgh and has written about theatre in Scotland since the late-1980s. He is a theatre critic for The Guardian, a former editor of The List magazine and a frequent contributor to the Scotsman and other publications. He is the co-editor of the play anthology Made in Scotland (1995), and the author of The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide (2012) and How to Write About Theatre (2015) – all Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. He is also the editor of The XTC Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls and What Do You Call That Noise? An XTC Discovery Book (both Mark Fisher Ltd).