OTMA Act III

Question 1

Marie: Thespian Sciences. How does that sound?

Answer 1

Olga: There is not such thing as thespian sciences

Question 2

Marie: And modern writers such as Gorky and Chekhov.

Answer 2

Olga: Gorky? How does a person like you even know who Gorky is?

Question 3

Anastasia: That sound great

Answer 3

Olga: Why stop there, why don’t you write that you studied under Stanislavskii at the Moscow Art Theatre

Question 4

Marie: I would be Grand Duchess Marie Roosevelt. I’ll get papa to give him a title

Answer 4

Olga: They don’t have titles in America

Question 5

Marie: What about President?

Answer 5

Olga: One is elected president

Question 6

Marie: By whom?

Answer 6

Olga: The people

Question 7

Marie: What if they elect someone crazy?

Answer 7

Olga: It’s the people’s choice

Question 8

Tatiana: The Tsar is God’s choice

Answer 8

Olga: That’s worked out nicely. Thank you God

Question 9

Anastasia: … I’ll ask them if they can notify me by telegram

Answer 9

Olga: You are both mad. Truly, utterly mad

Question 10

Marie: …You should take at least 4 of your court dresses

Answer 10

Olga: I have a question. Let’s say you are accepted. How are you going to get there?

Question 11

Anastasia: … I’ll take a steamer to Finland, tehn a boat to London and then a steamship to America.

Answer 11

Olga: First you have to get out this door

Question 12

Marie: Any day now

Answer 12

Olga: You honestly believe that we’re going to be rescued?

Question 13

Tatiana: olga, leave them alone

Answer 13

Olga: I will not leave them alone. I will not let them revel in their fantasy world

Question 14

Tatiana: Are they harming anyone? Why must you be so angry all the time?

Answer 14

Olga: Because I wanted to go to university and now I just want to know what’s going on outside. Is that too much to ask? Tania, the world is changing and I am not allowed to be a part of it. We are living in the age of the telephone, the automobile, the aero plane. Imagine what the world with be like in twenty, thirty, fifty years from now. I want to know what is going to happen. I have this hunger inside me

Question 15

Marie: Olga, Papa said non of us were to go near the windows

Answer 15

I don’t care anymore. I don’t

Question 16

Marie: Get away from the window!

Answer 16

Olga: Let them shoot me. Let them get it over with

Question 17

Tatiana: That’s the cowards way out

Answer 17

Olga: Why because I was to control my own fate

Question 18

Tatiana: Our fate is in god’s hands

Answer 18

Olga: then let him strangle me

Question 19

Maire: …We’re going to get rescued

Answer 19

Olga: That’s right. Anastasia’s going to enroll in the fall as a matriculating student at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York

Question 20

Olga: You’re fools to believe that there’s a life waiting for us outside this room. Don’t you all see even if we get rescued, we have nowhere to go, no one wants us
Picks up the Cherry Orchard
We’ll be like Luibov Ranyeskaya wandering from watering hole to watering hole, a despised refugee
throw the Cherry Orchard

Question 21

Anastasia: But our baggage traveled with us

Answer 21

Olga: Baggage means something else. It’s a code word

Question 22

Tatiana: Olga, you’re playing Yasha right?

Answer 22

Olga: Why are you crying? In six days I’ll be back in Paris. And then you won’t see us again. I don’t believe it. Vive la France! I can’t live here - there’s no culture and I’m sick of it. Why are you crying? If you hadn’t become so emotionally invested you wouldn’t be crying.

Question 23

Tatiana: You let him kiss you? How could you?

Answer 23

Olga: Tania, stop

Question 24

Marie: We were nothing more than baggage to him

Answer 24

Olga: He tried to help us. He was not without kindess

Question 25

Marie: ...Like the revolution

Answer 25

Olga: Marie, the revolution was a long time coming

Question 26

Marie: It's so terribly hot

Answer 26

Olga: Marie, don't

Question 27

Tatiana: Has she been hit?

Answer 27

Olga: I don't see any blood. They must've missed

Question 28

Tatiana: You fainted

Answer 28

Olga: Come on, I'll pour you a cup of tea

Question 29

Marie: I heard a shot

Answer 29

Olga: a guard playing with his gun. Sit

Question 30

Anastasia: There's another letter. Here Olga. When are they coming to rescue us?

Answer 30

Olga: Dear Friends, It is impossible to tell you now if we can take all your people, but once the signal comes, barricade the door with furniture. The guards will be blocked inside the house He doesn't say. With a rope made especially for the purpose, climb out through the window - we will be waiting for you at the bottom The rest is not difficult. there are many means of transportation and the hiding place is as good as ever. The big question is getting the little one down. is it possible? In any case, the father, the mother and the son come down first: the girls and then the doctor, follow them. Answer if this is possible in your opinion, and whether you can make the appropriate rape, because to have the rope brought to you is very difficult at this time. Signed, An Officer

Question 31

Tatiana: Olga

Answer 31

Olga: Yes, I know what you're thinking

Question 32

Tatiana: And?

Answer 32

Olga: It's suicide

Question 33

Anastasia: ... We can make rope from the sheets

Answer 33

Olga: Anastasia, I think we're being set up. As soon as we're on the ground, they'll shoot us saying that we tried to excape

Question 34

Anastasia: Why would they do that?

Answer 34

Olga: They don't know how to kill us

Question 35

Olga: ... We can't give up hope

Answer 35

Olga: Anastasia, this idea is mad

Question 36

Anastasia: ... is they see he's carrying the heir

Answer 36

Olga: Or they won't have to use two bullets. Tatiana, throw the letter away

Question 37

Marie: Please Olga, please answer the letter

Answer 37

Olga: Marie, they're setting us up. We'll try to escape and they'll have a reason to shoot us

Question 38

Tatiana: She does ahve a point

Answer 38

Olga: But this plan is mad

Question 39

Marie: Tell them to come up with another plan. Please Olga

Answer 39

Olga: What do you think we should do Tat: Olga: Alright, ill answer the letter

Question 40

Anastasia: We're going to be rescued

Answer 40

Olga: Get me a pen and some paper Dear Friends, we do not want to, nor can we escape. We can only be carried off by force, just as it was force that was used to carry us from Tobolsk. The commandant has many aides: they change often and have become suspicious. They guard our imprisonment and our lives. They are kind to us. We do not want them to suffer because of us, nor you for us: in the name of God, avoid bloodshed above all. Coming down from the window without a ladder is impossible. Even once we are down, we are still in great danger because of the machine gun. However, if you watch us, you can always come and save us in case of imminent danger. We are completely unaware of what is going on outside, for we receive no newspapers or letters. We have opened the window at night only, but surveillance is increased and we are scared at getting shot at. Signed, OTMA