A Question of Geography, play by Nella Bielski and John Berger, first edition in 1987.

The play centres on Daria Petrovna Petrova, who, having been condemned to ten years in the Gulag, now lives in Magadan in permanent exile. Daria has formed a relationship with a doctor who is also a prisoner, but who is allowed out of the prison camp during the day on account of his profession.

When the play opens, Daria is expecting a visit from her son, Sacha, now sixteen, but whom she hasn’t seen since he was eighteen months old. The action of the play takes place in 1952 and movingly explores these relationships and others against a background of the strange society in an out of the Gulag.