The Anastasia File | Theatre Royal Windsor Season on Tour

“They defend me. They attack me. It seems to me the world is consumed with curiosity about me and will remain so for the rest of time. And I will tell you why. They don’t want the answer. They want the mystery.”

 

July 1918. Tsar Nicholas II and his family are brutally executed by the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg. Two years later in Berlin, a woman is pulled from a canal after a failed attempt to take her own life and is placed in an institutional facility. As Doctors and police puzzle over her identity, she slowly begins to reveal details about her past that bring about the suspicion that she may in fact be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, the heir to the Romanov fortune.

 

Inspired by the true story of Anne Manahan, whose thirty-year battle for recognition as the last surviving Romanov was one of the most popular historical mysteries of the twentieth century.

 

Memory, fact and fiction intertwine in this thrilling and moving drama that will keep you guessing long after the curtain falls.

Cast & Creative

CAST

JENNY SEAGROVE
Mrs Manahan

SIMON SHEPHERD
Inspector

ASHLEY D. GAYLE

ROSIE THOMSON

CREATIVE

Written by
Royce Ryton

Directed by
Roy Marsden

Lighting Design by
Nick Richings

Sound Design by
Dan Samson

Media

Photography by Seamus Ryan

Book Tickets

15 – 19 Sep

NEWCASTLE Theatre Royal

30 Sep – 3 Oct

WINDSOR Theatre Royal

6 – 10 Oct

SALISBURY Playhouse

13 – 17 Oct

MALVERN Festival Theatre

20 – 24 Oct

GUILDFORD Yvonne Arnaud Theatre