Rusalka

In this tense, mysterious ten minute play, Rossi is interrogating a girl named Lydia about the disappearance of her friend, who, from Lydia’s account, is an unusual and perhaps slightly unbalanced person who was actually a rusalka, a water and wood nymph from Russian folklore who leads men to their doom. The more bizarre details Lydia adds to her description of her friend’s story, the more we begin to suspect that it is Lydia herself who is more than slightly unbalanced, and is perhaps even the one responsible for her friend’s disappearance. Unless it was the Russian man the friend was dating, the source of the rusalka tale, whom Lydia might have shot with a bee bee gun when he tried got rough with her friend, if that person in fact exists. Or maybe this is not at all what it seems, and Rossi himself is a suspect. A little nightmare labyrinth of a play about the elusive nature of reality and the relationship of love to madness.