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                                 Duchess


                              Berlin 1928






                                    THEME

                Caught in the turmoil of the Russian revolution, a young
             woman with post-tramatic stress syndrome, fights a Royal Family,
             political enemies, and an American lover to create her own identity.

                                24 CHARACTERS

                              In Russia, 9 characters

             NICHOLAS: 50, former Czar of Russia deposed by revolutionar-
             ies, a gentle man suffering in exile; now a worried husband and
             father of five.

             ALEXANDRA: 46, former Czarina, born a German Princess,
             and granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England, a religous royal
             remaining Czarina even in exile; hard, bitter, righteous.
             The four royal teen-aged daughters, the Grand Duchesses, and the
             one son, the future Czar of all the Russias. Anastasia is the young-
             est girl. Murdered in the early morning of July 17, 1918, all had
             mid-summer birthdays.

             OLGA: 21
             TATIANA: 19
             MARIA: 18



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