VASSA
Directed by Daniel Jenkins
VASSA PETROVNA ZHELEZNOVA
Playing the Main Lead: Vassa Petrovna Zheleznova
Vassa tells the story of Vassa Zheleznova, a matriarch, who for many years has worked as the head of her family business. In spite of her mischief-making children, deathbed husband, alcoholic brother and pious sister-in-law, she struggles to maintain a semblance of normal life within her uber-dysfunctional family. Before long, moral qualms go out the window and manipulative expediency takes over, often with devastating and hilarious results. Although originally set between the Russian revolutions in the early 1900s, we have chosen a period during which liberation and freedom from tradition were beginning to emerge, when the youth found a new independence, and previously held morals and family values began to collapse—the sexual revolution of the 1970s.
