Seattle Rep presents MOTHER RUSSIA by Lauren Yee from March 6 to April 6, 2025. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books, films and music to enhance your experience of the show.
The Employees
Like Euvgeny and Dmitri in MOTHER RUSSIA, the characters in this workplace drama navigate the changing labor conditions in society and attempt to adapt -- but here they're on a spaceship.
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Lenin's Tomb
The Washington Post's Moscow correspondent chronicles the collapse of the Soviet empire, from the rise of glasnost, through the final lowering of the Soviet flag, to the start of the post-Communist age. (NoveList)
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Monday Starts on Saturday
Sasha Privalov, a young computer programmer, visits the small town of Solovets for a holiday and gets swept into a new job at what turns out to be the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy (or NITWiT). His adventures are a charming and loving parody of both Soviet institutional culture and earlier fantasy and SF novels, (Publishers Weekly)
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Superstore
Like MOTHER RUSSIA, Superstore is a workplace comedy that takes on the absurdities of retail.
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Seattle Rep's MOTHER RUSSIA Website
Euvgeny and Dmitri are just two average guys who dream of cushy government jobs—but after the fall of the Soviet Union, they end up working retail instead. As they bumble their way through capitalism, they get entangled with an alluring former pop star who has her own secret agenda. This quirky and provocative world premiere comedy by Lauren Yee (The Great Leap, Cambodian Rock Band) reveals what happens when old systems and strongmen fall away, and we let the free market decide—but freedom doesn’t taste as good as we thought it would.
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