SCENE TWO
RUSSIA: 1927: INSIDE THE ABANDONED YUGUSOV PALACE
(MARFA, DUNYA and PAULINA are auditioning for the role of Anastasia. DMITRY and VLAD are conducting these auditions. MARFA is holding a script, and is in the middle of her audition.)
MARFA
I am the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov!
DMITRY
Try it this time without the gum in your mouth.
MARFA
It's not gum. It's tobacco.
(She walks over to the other women stage right.)
DMITRY
These are the last three, Vlad?
VLAD
Who were you expecting? Sarah Bernhardt?
MARFA
(walks back to center stage, tries again)
It's me, Grandmamma! Your precious Anastasia! They shot
me but I lived and I came all the way to Paris to tell
you, I'm alive!
(By the end of this spiel, MARFA stops acting and kneels facing DMITRY, who is sitting in a chairstage left.)
MARFA (cont.)
(To VLAD)
I'm not really an actress.
VLAD
(sarcastic)
No!
DMITRY
Thank you, ladies. We'll let you know.
PAULINA
What you're doing is against the law!
DUNYA
For this we lost our best hours on the street.
MARFA
If you weren't so handsome, Dmitry, I would report you.
DMITRY
Out! Out!
(He chases them out.)
VLAD
Well. You tried, my friend. Anastasias don't grow on trees.
DMITRY
Yeah, I'm not giving up. I'll go to Siberia to find an Anastasia.
(He reaches into his bag and pulls out a music box. THE music box.)
VLAD
Have you ever been to Siberia?
DMITRY
I've never been anywhere but here.
(He sits on a sheet-covered bench stage right.)
VLAD
Ah. The day I took up with you...
(He crosses stage left to grab his coat and puts it on.)
DMITRY
It was me or a Bolshevik firing squad.
VLAD
You saved my life.
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