Exchange (Dramatized)

The dreary aspects of Soviet housing and one family’s attempt to “exchange” its tiny Moscow apartment for a larger one. Adapted from a novella by the respected Russian writer Yuri Trifanov, as translated by playwright Michael Frayn.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:

• Ian Abercrombie as Viktor’s Father
• Rosalind Ayres as Lena
• Sharon Bamber as Aunt Ahenya
• Joyce Blair as Viktor’s Mother
• Barbara Bosson as Lora
• Peter A. Jacobs as Kalugin and Felix
• Martin Jarvis as Viktor
• Zosukuma Kunene as Alik
• Anna Sophie Loewenberg as Natashka
• Vonetta McGee as Tanya
• Marian Mercer as Lena’s Mother
• Robin Nordli as Factory Director and Funeral Orator
• William Palmieri as Snitkin and others
• John Randolph as Viktor’s Grandfather
• Melissa Smigley as Marina, and Girl Next Door
• Malachi Throne as Lena’s Father

Translated and adapted by Michael Frayn. Directed by Robert Robinson. Recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, CA in April, 1992.

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