Highgate play explores true story of British communist's Moscow marriage

Vodka with Stalin returns to Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate Village for a limited run from 15th-27th October

David Malcolm as Harry Pollitt and Miranda Colmans as Rose Cohen

A play exploring the true story of a British communist’s Moscow marriage is coming to a theatre in Highgate next month.

Vodka with Stalin returns to Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate Village for a limited run from 15th-27th October, and tickets are now on sale.

It tells the true story of Rose Cohen, a British communist who went with her Russian husband to Moscow, just in time for the start of Slatin’s purges in the 1930s. Can her former lover Harry Pollitt, now Britain’s communist leader and a drinking chum of Stalin, protect her?

The play is written by Francis Beckett. London Pub Theatres wrote in its review: “Beckett’s achievement – and that of the cast and of the director Owain Rose – is to take a tiny but actual episode from the gigantic historic car crash that was the Soviet revolution and enthral a 21^st Century audience in a London pub with the human emotions that both drove and destroyed it.”

For more information and to buy tickets:
Visit upstairsatthegatehouse.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth

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