Orphans for the Czar

by George F. Walker

Orphans for the Czar ruefully exposes the duplicity, revenge, and self-interest at the core of a culture about to go up in flames. Suggested by Gorsky's novel The Life of a Useless Man and set shortly before Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, the play focuses on a hapless double agent as he tries to stay on the right side of both the revolutionaries and the czarists. The orphaned fool Vasley leaves his impoverished village to work in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1990738214
• ISBN13: 9781990738210
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Scirocco Drama
• Length: 72 Pages