How did I respond to The Past Is Still Ahead, written and directed by Sophia Romma, at the Midtown International Theatre Festival? Let me count the ways: I thought it was brave, moving, intense, smart, overdone, kinda laughable, and kinda wonderful. Mostly, I admired it. I admired the work and love that went into it. I admired […]
In "The Past Is Still Ahead" by Sophia Romma, one of Russia's most ill-fated and controversial cult poets of the twentieth century, Marina Tsvetaeva, revisits the tumultuously tragic and sexy events of her life--just before she succumbs to "suicide" at the hands of the Soviet Secret Police in 1941 while exiled in Siberia. The play […]
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"The Past is Still Ahead," an endearing, heart-wrenching tale of the life and poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva, one of Russia's most profound poets. In "The Past is Still Ahead" by Sophia Romma, one of Russia's most ill-fated and controversial cult poets of the twentieth century, Marina Tsvetaeva, revisits the tumultuously tragic and sexy events of […]
Interview with Sophia Romma, playwright and poet. Author of The Past is Still Ahead. At The Midtown International Theatre Festival
In “The Past Is Still Ahead” by Sophia Romma, one of Russia’s most ill-fated and controversial cult poets of the twentieth century, Marina Tsvetaeva, revisits the tumultuously tragic and sexy events of her life-just before she succumbs to “suicide” at the hands of the Soviet Secret Police in 1941 while exiled in Siberia. The play will be presented by […]
“The Past Is Still Ahead” premiered at the legendary Mayakovsky Academic Art Theater in Moscow on April 25, 2007, directed by Francois Rochaix (of Theatre de Carouge, Geneva) and Yuri Joffe (of the Mayakovsky Academic Art Theater). Its American debut was presented by The Past is Stilll Ahead, Inc. at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2007, […]
The 14th Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival presents "The Past Is Still Ahead" at The Jewel Box Theatre (New York, circa July, 2013), written and directed by Sophia Romma. The award-winning play exposes the ill-fated, sexy turbulent life of exiled Russian Poetess, Marina Tsvetaeva. www.midtownfestival.org
An emigrant feels like a circus man who is traveling the endless doroga, Russian for "the road." The sins of your past are inconsequential and your future is in limbo. It's a human condition that is painted poetically in "Cabaret Émigré," a new play by Sophia Romma, directed by Charles Weldon.