Norwegian Rabbit by Gary Geddes
Thu, Jun 25
|https://zoom.us/webinar/83418700584
After being exiled by Stalin, Leon Trotsky’s final days were spent in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City, where he and his wife Natalia Sedova and their entourage were guests at the infamous ‘Blue House’ of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
Time & Location
Jun 25, 2020, 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. PDT
https://zoom.us/webinar/83418700584
About the Event
HOW TO ATTEND Click the link below at showtime: Doors 5 minutes prior. Latecomers welcome - audience does not appear on screen. https://zoom.us/webinar/83418700584
ABOUT THE PLAY After being exiled by Stalin, Leon Trotsky’s final days were spent in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City, where he and his wife Natalia Sedova and their entourage were guests at the infamous ‘Blue House’ of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. After two years, the Trotskys moved a short distance away to 19 Avenida Viena, where he carried on his writing and political activities against a background of hostility from the pro-Stalin Mexican Communist Party. Having been exiled from Russia, then deported from Turkey, France, and Norway, Trotsky was grateful for his Mexican refuge, despite its obvious dangers, and spent his spare time collecting rare cacti, raising chickens and rabbits, and contemplating the fate of the revolution in a world locked in mortal combat. However, on May 24, 1940,…
