Review: BLACK MILK by Alex Rubin
Black Milk, by Russian playwright Vassily Sigarev (translated by Sasha Dugdale) and directed by Michel Hausmann, chronicles the lives of small-time crook Lyovchik and his pregnant wife Poppet as they wait at a train station in a desolate village in post-Communist Russia. After swindling the poor villagers of their finances by selling them useless toasters, the couple sit at the decrepit station, waiting endlessly for…