Kalashnikov

This is a provocative new play about Mikhail Kalashnikov - the Russian inventor of the AK47 assault rifle and a decorated Soviet hero. Set in Kalashnikov''s dacha amidst the dark woods and waters of a fairy tale Russian landscape a young journalist Volkov comes to interview the elderly Kalashnikov about his time on the front line and his subsequent invention of the AK-47 assault rifle. With the help of his daughter and grand-daughter Kalashnikov initially welcomes Volkov into his home but as the questions harden and ambiguities appear in Kalashnikov''s recollections some painful and extremely uncomfortable truths begin to emerge...