Ask Joseph

Despite Hurricane Sandy, which brought significant disruption to the lives of New Yorkers, the November premier of Ask Joseph took place as scheduled. It was a new collaborative work by Slava Stepnov and Roman Freud, a unique drama in which the distinct echoes of Chekhov’s “Seagull” is in the peculiar intertwine with the life and artistic career of the Noble Prize winner Joseph Brodsky. The production was very well accepted by both theatre-goers and critics. Ask Joseph is not a story about a particular individual. Rather it is about those who had the courage to drastically change their lives by abandoning their familiar environments, and end up on the verge of catastrophic cultural and emotional divisions. Love, mystery, adultery, scandal and spies are just a few of the turns and twists of the plot.