The Anastasia File

A new twist on one of history’s greatest mysteries…

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, the heir to the Romanov fortune.

Inspired by the true story of Anne Manahan, whose thirty-year battle for recognition as the last surviving Romanov was one of the most popular historical mysteries of the twentieth century.

Memory, fact and fiction intertwine in this thrilling and moving play that will keep you guessing until the curtain falls.

Brief Encounter (On Air) co-stars Jenny Seagrove and Simon Shepherd reunite on stage, along with Ashley D. Gayle (Hamlet) and Rosie Thomson (EastEnders) in this tense and thought-provoking production.

★★★★ “Seagrove gives a delightful, nuanced performance” – West End Best Friend

★★★★ “An amazing production!” – Fairy Powered Productions

“An imperial intrigue that is absolutely first class” – British Theatre Guide

“I hope for a West End Transfer!” – Tim Walker – The New European

“Magnificent, perfect, brilliant” – Henley Standard