The 17

Below is a draft of a play I wrote back in 2012, but never finished. I have finally got round to finishing it and thought I might share given its theme is the rise of nationalism amid the collapse of the Russian hyper-capitalist experiment in the late 1990s.

The 17 references the number of votes by which then Russian President Boris Yeltsin was spared impeachment, a moment at which the country could well have taken another course.

The 17 - Final Draft

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