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About the book. The Rose Garden is a play about Russia just prior to the first world war. There is unrest which will lead to the October Revolution but as the play opens the aristocrats are still in control and the Tsar is still in power. The action of the play takes place in the rose garden of an aristocratic family the Karenins who are holidaying away from the city. The couple are trying to find a husband for their daughter Natasha but none of the men they have so far found for her meet with her approval. To get herself out of the marriage stakes she has invited her former teacher to stay and she hopes that she will be able to persuade him to help her. The teacher, Boris, has his own reasons for coming to stay, he is trying to avoid Frau Van Berg a widowed woman who has designs on him. To complicate matters much more not only does the lady come after Boris but also he is followed by Ulianov, his revolutionary friend. All kinds of fun are had when Frau Von Berg finds that one of Tasha's suitors is the father of her son. Ulianov challenges Karenin, Tasha's father to an arm wrestling bout which Karenin wins and Ulianov is forced to leave. The end of the play is after the revolution. Karenin's father-in-law is still in the rose garden at the Dacha where he is visited by the terminally ill Ulianov whose revolutionary party has come to power. Medium sized cast. One set. |
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