Park theatre, LondonAnna Akhmatova is forced to choose between artistic integrity and saving her son in Olivia Olsen's play In 1935, Anna Akhmatova began writing Requiem in Soviet Russia. Her son, Lev, had just been arrested by the authorities and the poem, published decades later, became a seminal work on Stalin's Great Terror. It was as much a mother's lament as a testimony of a nation's suffering: "Seventeen month…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM on November 18, 2019