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Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

The Woman in the Window

8 May 2001 – 12 May 2001

Performance Dates

8 May 2001 – 12 May 2001

May 2001

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8, 9, 10, 11, 12 May

Details

Playwright
Alma De Groen
Director
Peter Kingston
AddressWA Academy of Performing Arts
A Third Year production

Anna Akhmatova is regarded by many as having been the greatest woman poet in Western culture. In The Woman in the Window, which is lossely based on her life, Anna struggles to keep her poems alive for the Russian people during the decades of Stalinist terror. She and her friend memorise them and burn the evidence. The play is set partly in Leningrad in the early 1950's and partly in Australia in the year 2080. In this future of virtual realities, as in Anna's time, the words of the poets are again indestructible.

Matinee Sat 12 May at 11am

Bookings

This production has concluded. Contact details are not available for past events.