Reading of "Shoot Them in the Cornfields" at Drama Book Shop December 12, 2005

?Shoot Them in the Cornfields!?, a drama set in 1958, is a first-person account on the most notorious, criminal prisons of the Soviet Union, Butirka, to which an aging, free-spirited Jewish woman and her husband, caught for employing the mentally retarded, under Nikita Krushchev?s oppressive, anti-intellectual reign, are banished for ten years. This new play written by Sophia Murashkovsky,- published poet, playwright, professor and Grand-Prix Garnet Bracelet Winner for best original screenplay, Poor Liza, is directed by Obie Winner and Tony Nominated playwright, Leslie Lee.

This reading of global resonance, performed by Ina Rosenthal, Howard Atlee, Brett Dykes, Heather Massie and Alexei Kostalevsky, will take place at 7:30PM on Monday, December 12, 2005 at The Drama Book Shop at 250 West 40th (between 7th and 8th Avenues) in New York City, with reception following a short Q & A. ? Admission is free!

For more information please contact Steven Sugimura at [email protected].