THE STORY OF DAVID Z

	A play in five parts for five actors


Anatoly Antohin
Theatre UAF
Fairbanks AK 99775
907-455-6149 (h)
907-474-5253 (o)
e-mail: anatolant@yahoo.com

PART ONE. THE STROKE
1 m, 1 f, living room, Queens, present

After a stroke and a coma David forgets his immigration from Russia, as well as his life in New York and takes on the identity of his wife, thinking that she is his sister and they are still in Moscow. Three years later his wife Maria is leaving him, committing David to a mental institution. To stop her, David agrees to play "David."

PART TWO. THE FOLDING
2 f, 2 m, Moscow, Russia

On his return to Russia, David visits his family, meeting his wife, mother and father, and -- himself.

PART THREE. DEJA'VU
2 m, New York City

On the day David meets RC, who interrogated him ten years ago, he has a stroke.

PART FOUR. AFTERSHOCKS
1 m, 1 f. Somewhere in New York.

After coming out of a coma, David tries to remember his past -- and invents it.

PART FIVE. LAST WILL
2 m, 2 f. Somewhere between two worlds.

David's birthday party when he commits suicide.

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ANATOLY ANTOHIN, playwright and director, who defected from the Soviet Union in 1980, is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Anatoly has won several awards in drama and his plays have been produced in Russia, the USA and many European countries. In the U.S. he has taught and directed at the University of Connecticut, Connecticut College, New York University, Norwich University in Vermont, and Hollins College in Virginia. In 1992-94, Anatoly Antohin was in St. Petersburg, Russia, as a Fulbright scholar and as head of the Russian American Theatre project.

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