Happy Families (Rehearsed Reading)

What happens when material success comes at the cost of everything else?
 

“Happy Families by Natalia Rubtsova provides an intriguing opportunity for an English-speaking audience to gain an insight into the lives of a privileged Russian elite who grew up during the lawless years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and achieved material success, but apparently at the price of moral impoverishment”
— Sara Jolly, translator

The play was published in the literary magazine RING (No. 169, September 2023) and was selected as the winning play of the Young Playwrights & Young Directors Laboratory 2021–2022.

This special English-language reading brings Natalia Rubtsova’s work to a London audience for the first time, offering a rare opportunity to encounter contemporary Russian drama in translation.

Written by: Natalia Rubtsova 

Translated by: Sara Jolly

Produced and Directed by: Anna Viller 

Cast: Alexander Orav, Anastasia Velikorodnaya