Meg Miroshnik Selected Works

Award winning playwright, Meg Miroshnik casts a spell with The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls. Once upon a time—in 2005—a twenty-year-old girl named Annie returned to her native Russia to brush up on the language and lose her American accent. Underneath a glamorous Post-Soviet Moscow studded with dangerously high heels, designer bags, and luxe fur coats, she discovers an enchanted motherland teeming with evil stepmothers, wicked witches, and ravenous bears. Annie must learn how to become the heroine of a story more mysterious and treacherous than any childhood fairy tale: her own. This subversive story haunts the audience, and carries a powerful message for young women living in a world where not everything ends up happily ever after. 

It is one year after the “End of Theatre” and fourteen-year-old Nim Dullyn has just witnessed his first DROLL—an underground performance of comedic excerpts from famous plays—and he is desperate to meet his new idol, the Player James Killingworth. Seduced by the magic of the stage, Nim sets out for the Cittie with this illegal theatrical troupe. The beastly Roundheads, fundamentalists who deem theatre an abomination during this time of Sicknesse and Troubles, pursue him. Inspired by the theatre closures of Puritan England, The Droll asks: what evil would you do in the name of laughter?