Archipelago

Among them is an unlikely troupe of actors who struggle to put on a production of The Inspector General in Far Eastern Siberia in 1937

Through an ensemble of actors who play a wide variety of characters, the play looks broadly at the origins of the Gulag, life in the camps and the role of the arts as a coping strategy for Gulag victims

It examines the use of comedy, specifically satire, as a means of emotional release and empowerment

The play lurches wildly in tone, moving from drama to satire, thereby keeping the world of the play unstable

Based almost entirely on experiences recounted by Gulag survivors, Archipelago honors the memories of artists and others who suffered and died in Stalin's concentration camps

David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award Winner

Winner of the Arelene R. and William P. Lewis Playwriting Contest for Women