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The Russian Play and Other Short Works
Hannah Moscovitch
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The Russian Play and Other Short Works
Hannah Moscovitch
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Four short plays by one of Canada's exciting, new theatre voices.
In The Russian Play, the flower-shop girl tells the story of her love for the gravedigger. Essay casts a teaching assistant in the shadow of his professor as they argue the merits of a female student's paper. In USSR, a young woman relates her journey to Canada from Russia, and Mexico City follows Henry and Alice on their vacation in 1960. These four plays bring each character to life in full colour, jumping off the page before you and onto the stage.
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ESSAY
Essay premiered at the SummerWorks Theatre Festival (an Absit Omen Theatre production) in Toronto on August 5th, 2005, with the following company:
JEFFREY | Jordan Pettle |
PIXIE | Claire Jenkins |
PROF. GALBRAITH | Richard Greenblatt |
Director: Michael Rubenfeld
Assistant Director: Caleb Yong
Essay won the 2005 Contra Guys Award for Best New Script at the SummerWorks Theatre Festival.
Essay was later produced at Factory Theatre in Toronto as part of a double bill with The Russian Play in January of 2008, with the following company:
JEFFREY | Jordan Pettle |
PIXIE | Claire Jenkins |
PROF. GALBRAITH | Richard Greenblatt |
Director: Michael Rubenfeld
Set & Costume Design: Camellia Koo
Lighting Design: Kimberly Purtell
Sound Design: Thomas Ryder Payne
Assistant Set & Costume Design: Anna Treusch
Stage Manager: Joanna Barrotta
Assistant Stage Manager: Alexandra Stephanoff
CHARACTERS
JEFFREY: thirty
PIXIE: eighteen
PROFESSOR GALBRAITH: early sixties
ESSAY
SCENE ONE
A small office on campus. An open laptop sits on a desk amidst piles of papers, files and books. The greenish hue of fluorescent lighting fills the room. Lights up on JEFFREY, behind the desk, and PIXIE, in front of it.
JEFFREY Just, uh, please take a seat while I finish this paragraph and then Iāll leave off.
PIXIE Am I earlyā¦? Orā¦?
JEFFREY No, no, just finishing up, just finishing up.
JEFFREY closes his laptop.
Now. Essay proposal, is that right? Essay due on the eighteenth?
PIXIE Thank you for letting me come andā
JEFFREY No, please. Just remind me. I rejected your proposal, is thatā¦?
PIXIE Uh, yes, you did, butā
JEFFREY Right. Good. Well, my notes are vague sometimes, and my handwriting is very bad, so before you raze the field, we might as well take a closer look at it.
PIXIE (getting out her essay proposal) Okay, great, um, well what I wanted toā
JEFFREY Itās usually just a question of coming up with an alteration that will render itā
PIXIE āum, okayā
JEFFREY āmore precise, more scholarly.
PIXIE Okay. Thatās what I wanted to talk to you about.
JEFFREY Good. Yes. Letās talk!
PIXIE Your objections, because IāI think I can make an argument for this essay proposal.
JEFFREY This one?
PIXIE Yeah.
JEFFREY This essay proposal?
PIXIE Yes?
Beat.
JEFFREY Ah. I see. Youāve come to contest.
PIXIE Or at least I just wanted toā
JEFFREY To make your case, is that it?
PIXIE IāI just think thatāthat itās possibleāthat itās possible to argue, I mean if the problem is just sourcing.
JEFFREY Let me take a look at it, can I?
PIXIE hands him the essay proposal.
Letās just see what weāve got here before weā¦ (laughs)ā¦ have it out.
Beat.
PIXIE (waiting, shifting) Ifāif you read the notes you madeā¦
JEFFREY holds out his hand to indicate to PIXIE that she should give him a minute to finish reading.
Beat.
JEFFREY (scanning) Elizabeth Farnese. Strategies of, important contributions to. Summary, summary, more summary. Look. What youāve got here is very interesting. A very interesting historical figureā
PIXIE Yeah, well I thoughtā
JEFFREY āwho no doubt deserves moreā¦. An argument could be made that this is an oversight. The historical record has failed to illuminate this neglected but highly engaging corner of European history.
PIXIE Unhunh, wellā
JEFFREY Hoards of insensitive historians have obscured a very important character, as it were.
PIXIE Yeah, wellā
JEFFREY And she is worthy, entitled to, a second glance, now, in our modern era. However, that saidā
PIXIE Unhunh.
JEFFREY āthat said, Iām not sure that for the purposes of this first year course itāsāitāsāif there would be enough material to support a ten-page essay on the topic.
PIXIE Yeah, butā
JEFFREY Ten pages. Youāll need more than a cursoryā
PIXIE Yeah.
JEFFREY āmore than a brief mention in a largerā
PIXIE Yeah, I have. I have plenty of materia...