Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, The

by Meg Miroshnik

Award winning playwright, Meg Miroshnik casts a spell with The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls. Once upon a time - in 2005 - a twenty-year-old girl named Annie returned to her native Russia to brush up on the language and lose her American accent. Underneath a glamorous Post-Soviet Moscow studded with dangerously high heels, designer bags, and luxe fur coats, she discovers an enchanted motherland teeming with evil stepmothers, wicked witches, and ravenous bears. Annie must learn how to become the heroine of a story more mysterious and treacherous than any childhood fairy tale: her own. This subversive story haunts the audience, and carries a powerful message for young women living in a world where not everything ends up happily ever after.

Genres: Plays, Russia

82 pages, Paperback

First published November 14, 2014

Reviews

[Miranda · Rating 4 out of 5]

This piece is right up my alley-- give me more weirdly dark plays steeped in folklore, please.

[Eliana Lazzara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Russian fairytale superiority

[tai lyn sandhu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really inventive, although I got slightly lost between characters. Would loveeee to see a production of this staged

[Maddy Hayes · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was alright. It's got pacing issues, I think it's got too many settings, but I really like the all-female cast and fairytale retellings.

[By The Cover · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved the fairytale aspects and am sure this could be staged super interestingly. I think it's kind of short and underdeveloped.

[Duncan Ellis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Surreal and ambitious play. Doesn't perhaps quite come off, but lots of potential in staging. 3.5 stars if I could..

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

2016 Reading Challenge - Fairy Tale Retelling