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Production still from the 2001 production of "Svetlana in Slingbacks". L-R: Miria Kostiuk as Svetlana, James Brennan. Photographer: Rachelle Roberts

Svetlana in Slingbacks (2002)

By Valentina Levkowicz

23 April 2002 – 04 May 2002 Beckett Theatre

Playbox Theatre Company,

Theatre Remount

Boris Fretlov struggles to set up shop in the western suburbs: his wife Ludmilla dreams of romantic fiction and lives an everyday nightmare. Sonya is a defiant teenager determined to enjoy her freedom in her new-found country, while 12 year old Svetlana escapes from the pressures of her family into an imaginative universe of stars and spaceships.

This play was commissioned in 1997 by Vitalstatistix.

Production still from the 2001 production of "Svetlana in Slingbacks". L-R: Margaret Cameron as Ludmilla, Miria Kostiuk as Svetlana. Photographer: Rachelle Roberts