Child of Hungry Times

After a successful run in Seattle and Moscow, Russia, Bridget Bailey performs the New York premiere of her poignant solo show based on the controversial writings of Soviet dramatist Ludmila Petrushevskaya, a prolific female writer who suffered censorship and daily struggle through the era of the Soviet Union.

Child of Hungry Times reveals and revels in the lives of six women through the humor and heartache of living under the Soviet regime. A powerful evenign filled with musick, potatoes, true stories and Russian jokes.

Child of Hungry Times

Written & Performed by Bridget Bailey
Directed by Jay O'Berski
Based on the works of Ludmila Petrushevskaya

Co-Produced with Bridget Bailey in 2009 for the Planet Connections Theater Festivity

Who's Who

Bridget Bailey (Producer, Playwright, Actress) graduated from Duke University where she majored in Theater Studies and Slavic Languages & Literature. She has studied acting and directing in Russia at the Moscow Art Theatre, The St. Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy, and the Anatoly Vasiliev Theatre ‘School of Dramatic Art.’  Favorite credits include (Duke) Trojan Women, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Into the Woods, Misterioso, Loyal Women, Eyes Like Fire Opals, All of the Above, Tom Lehrer: Stages of Life, Shakespeare Lives!; (New York)The Genie (Krane Theatre), The Miracle Age (Producer’s Playhouse), and Hell’s Kitchen: The Muscial (The Hudson Guild Theatre). She directed an original translation and adaption for the Chekhov Centennial Festival and received a “Best of Playtime” award for her direction of selections from William Inge’s Bus Stop for Playtime’s Inge Binge Festival at the 78th Street Theatre Lab.  In New York, she has worked and studied with LAByrinth Theater Company, The SITI Company, and has worked with Stone Productions/321 Theatrical Management onWicked! and The 25th Annual…Spelling Bee.  Child of Hungry Times has been produced in North Carolina, Seattle, and Moscow, Russia.  

Jay O’Berski (Director) is the Artistic Director of Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, the Associate director of Manbites Dog Theatre and teaches acting at Duke University. He earned MFAs in Acting from The Moscow Art Theatre School and Carnegie Mellon University.  Directing credits include: A Street Car Named Desire, Three Sisters (on Ice), The Cherry Orchard, Europe Central, Fistful Of Love, Goin' a Buffalo, Virginia Woolf’s The Waves(Little Green Pig); The Man Who, Shopping and Fucking  Back of the Throat, The Overwhelming(Manbites Dog); Faust and Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespeare & Originals); The Man Who,Klownmakbeth (Wendell Theatre); Misterioso (Duke University). Jay directed the Durham premiere and Seattle productions of Child of Hungry Times.

Click HERE for the Child of Hungry Times website.

Click HERE for the Planet Connections Theater Festivity website