The House of Special Purpose

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T587541177 (MINERVA09) Corporate Sponsor University of Chichester. Producer Festival Theatre Chichester. Director Howard Davies. Design William Dudley. Costume Jenny Bevan. Lighting Howard Harrison. Music Dominic Muldowney. Sound Christopher Shutt. Performer Adrian Rawlins (Tsar Nicholas II). Performer Clare Holman (Alexandra - Alix).
20 Jun 09 to 22 Aug 09	Minerva Theatre, Chichester :: V1310317653 listing details L02147418921

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Play :: Ekaterinberg, 1918. A wooden stockade surrounds a requisitioned house. Inside, the deposed Tsar of Russia is imprisoned with his wife, four daughters and invalid teenage son. Stripped of Imperial privilege, they are held captive by a ragtag detachment of Communist soldiers – raw young men recruited from the lowest ranks. The girls are on the brink of womanhood, their parents bowed beneath the weight of an all-consuming marriage. For one brief and airless summer, the House of Special Purpose holds them all within its walls. Packed into the suffocating rooms, the family and their guards are forced into a frail and dangerous intimacy, tensions rising as boundaries strain and break.

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Heidi Thomas