Vodka with Stalin
2023
Vodka with Stalin tells the true story of Rose Cohen, journalist, suffragette, and agent for the Moscow-based Communist International in the 1920s.
Rose Cohen and her Russian lover Max Petrovsky settled in Moscow and she had a baby – just in time to be caught up in Stalin’s murderous purges. As a foreigner and a Jew, she was naturally suspected of being in league with Trotsky.
“As always with Francis’s work, you can’t fail to become emotionally close to the characters”
— John McDonnell MP, The House Magazine
“The fact that Rose Cohen’s story is true adds to the dramatic arc”
— Theatrevibe
“Beckett’s achievement… is to take a tiny but actual episode from the gigantic historic car crash that was the Soviet revolution and enthral a 21st Century audience in a London pub with the human emotions that both drove and destroyed it”
- London Pub Theatres
“Deeply researched and compelling”
— Morning Star
For scripts or performance enquiries contact the author at francis@francisbeckett.co.uk.
If you want to stage the original production, contact francis@francisbeckett.co.uk.
Photos by Mark Thomas shows David Malcolm as Harry and Miranda Colmans as Rose
