Svetlana! Svetlana!

5.0/5

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In 1967, Joseph Stalin’s daughter braved her way over the Iron Curtain, secret memoir in tow, and landed in America as the Cold War’s most famous defector. At 40 years old, Svetlana had left everything behind for a new life in the West and the chance to finally share her story. What she found instead — a controversial commune in the Arizona desert built by Frank Lloyd Wright, a whirlwind marriage dictated by destiny, and a Montenegrin matriarch with dreams of immortality — was far more complicated. In Svetlana! Svetlana! neurotic playwright Dan Kitrosser unravels the weird and wild life of his greatest


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Score: 5

Nicholas Quah • Vulture Mar 2, 2023

"...it’s messy, obnoxious, and all over the place; which is to say, for the right person, it’s spectacularly free and fun."

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