The Bay at Nice
About the Show
Andak Stage Company presents the Los Angeles premiere of David Hare’s The Bay at Nice.
In the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad in 1956, an aging Valentina – once a young student (and possibly lover) of Henri Matisse – has been asked to help authenticate a painting for the museum staff. She is accompanied by her daughter Sophia, a teacher but also an artist who is unhappily married to a Party bureaucrat and desperate to be free of her marriage and start a new life – but she needs her mother’s approval and financial assistance. The result is a battle of wills between the two women, one an ex-Bohemian who left the freedom of Paris to raise her fatherless child in a repressive Russia, the other a stifled woman in her thirties eager to taste the freedom her mother once enjoyed.
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