SCENE ELEVEN
INSIDE THE PALACE
(The DOWAGER EMPRESS enters, followed by LILY.)
LILY
She'll turn up. Why would she disappear in the first place? You've accepted her as the heir to the Romanov fortune. She'll live like a queen. Even though people don't want queens anymore. Well, the English do, but they're crazy.
(VLAD runs in.)
VLAD
Not a trace of her! The room was bare. Except for this.
(He holds up the music box. The DOWAGER EMPRESS takes it.)
DOWAGER EMPRESS
I think we've seen the last of that young woman, Lily.
LILY
Was she Anastasia?
DOWAGER EMPRESS
My favorite. Strong, not afraid of anything.
(The DOWAGER EMPRESS opens the music box. She takes out a note. She reads it. She smiles.)
DOWAGER EMPRESS
Maybe a life of riches isn't fit for her after all.
LILY
(leans over and reads the note)
They've eloped!
YOU ARE READING
Anastasia Revisioned
Storie d'amoreThis is kinda not(?) a fanfiction, but a retelling of a mashup of Disney and Broadway's Anastasia. In playwriting format. --- Anya, a girl suffering from amnesia, doesn't remember her past. Her only clue to it is to go to Paris. She teams up with tw...
