ON
NAKED SOIL
Imagining Anna Akhmatova
Written
by Rebecca Schull -- Directed by Susan Einhorn
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| Anna Akhmatova |
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One
goes in straightforward ways, But I do go
-- and woe is there -- My
Way (1940) |
WELCOME
TO
"On Naked Soil - Imagining Anna Akhmatova"
"On Naked Soil - Imagining Anna Akhmatova," a play by Rececca Schull, had its debut run April 12 to May 4, 2008 at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York City. It was presented by Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Executive Artistic Director) and directed by Susan Einhorn.
ABOUT ANNA AKHMATOVA
Born in 1889 in Odessa, Anna Akhmatova was a published poet at age 22. Her early poems, remarkable for the intimate tone with which they described love found and abandoned, were immediately popular and she, with her husband, the poet Nikolai Gumiliev, soon became the stars of the Russian literary scene in the early 1920's. As the political climate in Russia went from crisis to crisis, beginning with World War I, the October Revolution and Civil War in Russia, and through the years of terror under Lenin and then Stalin, and finally World War II, Akhmatova's poetry changed, reflecting the trauma of the Russian people. Her first husband was shot, her son was imprisoned and her closest friends were condemned to labor camps and death. Her personal tragedies were probably no worse than what most Russians suffered, but her experiences were transmuted into a poetry that defined the personal anguish of the times in language and images that marked her as one of Russia's great poets.
CLICK HERE FOR AN ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY.
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