The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls

In place of the previously planned fall show Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, new Spokane Falls Community College drama head Ashley DeMoville chose to direct The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, a “female-centric” 2014 play by Meg Miroshnik that reveals the sexism and domestic violence lurking beneath the haute couture of post-Soviet Moscow. “It explores the way that fairy tales record history in a way that’s sometimes more true than history books,” DeMoville says, adding that the play’s “gritty, funny, sexy” material is “intense, but handled with a nice kind of humor.” And with a cast of 17, this production of Fairytale Lives will be larger and more like an “ensemble piece” than most standard renditions: “As written, it’s meant to be for eight actresses playing multiple parts. I’ve divided those up and added a bit of a chorus, so I have characters that represent the three invisible hands of the witch Baba Yaga [as well as] the young men of Russia.”

Nov. 9-19: Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2 pm • $5/$10 • Spartan Theatre at SFCC • 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr., Bldg. 5 • spokanefalls.edu/Academic/Drama • 533-3605