Tales from Star City

Based on true events, and untold stories, these are the Tales from Star City.​

The Soviet Union. 1967. The Space Race is at its height. One woman, Polina Semyenova, is at the centre of it all. She is the listener.​ Hidden away in the pithily named ‘Closed Military Townlet No. 1’ (later to become the eponymous Star City), Polina looks back on her dreams of being part of the great Communist movement, during one of the most dramatic decades of the Cold War.​

Join Polina as she reaches for the stars, and journeys through some of the brightest and darkest moments of the Space Race. Tales from Star City transfers to the King’s Head Theatre after a five star run at the Tabard Theatre in Spring 2018. It is Dan Dawes’ fourth play after Steel Tumbleweed (Courtyard Theatre, 2016); The Signalman (rehearsed reading at Courtyard Theatre, 2018); and Axolotl (Theatre N16, 2018).