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Author Gregory, D. W., author

Title Memoirs of a forgotten man / D.W. Gregory
Published London : Methuen Drama : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

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Summary A Soviet journalist with the gift of total recall. A psychologist seeking to rehabilitate herself. A government censor with a secret past. Over two decades their fates become entwined as victims and collaborators in Stalin's campaign to rewrite public memory. Long before 'fake news' was an Internet meme, it was called propaganda. And in the Soviet Union, circa 1938, it was the grease that kept Stalin's machinery of terror in motion. By taking us to this world, where justice is arbitrary and freedom as we think of it does not exist, Memoirs of a Forgotten Man forces the audience to consider the fragility of democracy in an era when facts are fungible and history is whatever Dear Leader says it is
Notes Acts: 2. Roles: Male (4) , Female (5) , Neutral (1)
Theme: Totalitarianism; Post-WWII; Justice; Politics; Russia; Memory/the past; Freedom; Inter war. Genre: American drama; Political theatre. Period: 2011-2020; Contemporary. Place: Russia
Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 30 March 2020)
Subject Propaganda -- Drama
Politics and government.
Propaganda.
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953 -- Drama
Subject Soviet Union.
Genre/Form Drama.
Drama.
Théâtre.
Form Electronic book
OTHER TI Contained in: Plays by Women from the Contemporary American Theatre Festival