On May 21, the Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow presented an outstanding cross-cultural event. A searing play about Marina Tsvetaeva, one of Russia’s most intense and uncompromising poets, who was very Russian and international herself was performed. Tsvetaeva spent much time abroad and spoke several languages. The Past Is Still Ahead premiered at the legendary Mayakovsky […]

The JCC of Manhattan Presents Sophia Romma's stage-play, "The Past Is Still Ahead" sponsored by the JCC and Zabar's, circa January, 2008. The production highlights the unconventional life of the exiled Soviet Poetess, Marina Tsvetaeva as she converses with the late great poets of our time.

Inna Bodner and The Pushkin House in London, United Kingdom, presents Sophia Romma's internationally heralded play, "The Past Is Still Ahead," which toured the United Kingdom and Ireland. The play depicts the tumultuous life of one of Soviet Russia's most notoriously infamous poet's, Marina Tsvetaeva for whom constellations are named.