Event Description

‘They defend me. They attack me. It seems to me the world is consumed with curiosity about me and will remain so for the rest of time. And I will tell you why. They do not want the answer. They want the mystery.’

July 1918. Tsar Nicholas II and his family are brutally executed by the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg. Two years later in Berlin, a woman is pulled from a canal after a failed attempt to take her own life and is placed in an institutional facility. As doctors and police puzzle over her identity, she slowly begins to reveal details about her past that bring about the suspicion that she may in fact be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and therefore heir to the Romanov fortune.

Inspired by the true story of Anne Manahan, whose three-decade-long battle for recognition as the last surviving Romanov was one of the most popular historical mysteries of the last century, Royce Ryton’s play stars Jenny Seagrove (Judge John Deed) who reprises her critically acclaimed performance as part of The Theatre Royal Windsor Season on tour.

Directed by Roy Marsden, Seagrove is joined by Simon Shepherd (Peak Practice), Ashley D. Gayle (The Shawshank Redemption) and Rosie Thomson (EastEnders).

Memory, fact and fiction intertwine in this thrilling and moving drama that will keep you guessing long after the curtain falls.

Show times

Tuesday 13 October 2026: 7.30pm
Wednesday 14 October 2026: 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Thursday 15 October 2026: 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Friday 16 October 2026: 7.30pm
Saturday 17 October 2026: 2.30pm & 7.30pm

Tickets

Various prices – book via the Malvern Theatres website or box office

Thursday 15 October 2026

2:30pm

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