[FAC] Event: Opening Night

[Theatre Ventoux]

...of The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women is tomorrow!!!

The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women makes theatre history with  
an interactive courtroom drama that engages the audience to serve as  
both judge and jury. The play is shaped by the audience decisions to  
overrule or sustain the attorneys’ motions, and every night’s audience  
sees a different play.

The Anastasia Trials is a farcical, but profoundly engaging excursion  
into the hidden world of ethics for women who are both survivors and  
perpetrators of abuse toward women. The format is a play-within-a- 
play, where a radical feminist theatre company comes together in order  
to perform a courtroom drama.

In presenting the play, the Emma Goldman Theatre Brigade has  
instituted a new system to insure equal opportunity for the actors: a  
lottery. As the women assemble to draw their roles from the hat for  
the evening’s performance, sisterhood is put to the test. The  
performance itself is a conspiracy trial against five women accused of  
denying a woman her identity. The plaintiff is none other than  
Anastasia Romanov, sole survivor of the massacre of the Russian  
imperial family in 1918. The audience is required to serve as judge  
and jury for the case, providing both rulings on the motions and the  
final verdict.

The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women requires intense audience  
participation, and the question of women betraying women is called for  
every member of the audience.


Theatre Ventoux
Something Wonderful This Way Comes

www.theatreventoux.net


Gregory Taber
Lisa Mercier-Taber
Directors