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Kalashnikov: In the Woods by the Lake

A play in eight parts by Fraser Grace.

Available for re-tour 2013

A provocative new drama about Mikhail Kalashnikov: inventor of the AK47 assault rifle and a decorated Soviet hero.

In the dark woods of a fairy tale Russian landscape, a young journalist seeks out the legendary Kalashnikov in his remote dacha. At first the stranger is welcomed by the General and his protective daughter but as night falls and the vodka flows, events are triggered that no one can control…

…Andrew Neil engages intimately with the audience and sets up a beautifully avuncular Kalashnikov, an old man surrounded by his tools, inventions and memories... A highly entertaining play full of amusing one-liners… Graham Gurrin, The Stage