Shaw Festival: Russian Play
May - October, 2019
Shaw Festival: Niagara-on-the-Lake
Written by award-winning Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch
Directed by Diana Donnelly
Designed by Gillian Gallow
Lighting designed by Michelle Ramsay
Musical Direction by Ryan deSouza
Movement Director Esie Mensah
A small-town flower girl falls for a gravedigger in Stalinist Russia. What can go wrong? Well, it’s a Russian play, so: everything. Written by award-winning Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch, this edgy, wildly original homage to the plays of the great Russian playwrights will first make you laugh, and then take your breath away.
“★★★ - A DYNAMITE DIRECTORIAL DEBUT”
“★★★ - This stunning debut production from Diana Donnelly beautifully realizes Hannah Moscovitch’s rich, funny and poignant play about love, feminism”
Photos by David Cooper
