Considering Kolonists
Journal: Stanislavski Studies
Year: 2016

This article features Kolonists by British playwright Steven Dykes. The play received its European premiere as the centrepiece of NOVEMBER: Fall of the Wall, an international theatre event held in London in 1999 to mark the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the momentous changes in the first decade of post-Soviet countries. Kolonists is set in Estonia and focuses on a once-privileged Russian family who now face an uncertain future in this newly independent country, not only fr