Lauren Yee brings another of her plays to Seattle—this time about Russia, but also about us

Only in hindsight did playwright Lauren Yee realize that she had written a “cycle of communism plays.”

Yee’s so-called “cycle” started with the play, “Cambodian Rock Band,” followed by “The Great Leap,” set in China in the 1980s.

Her newest release, “Mother Russia,” covers a portion of the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.

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Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.

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