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The Anastasia File

Tue 15 – Sat 19 Sep 2026
Main Stage, Theatre Royal

EVENT INFORMATION

Evenings: 7.30pm
Matinees: Thu 2pm, Sat 2.30pm
Running time: 2hrs 10mins (including interval)
Need to know: Age guidance tbc, contains gunshots, loud screams, haze, flashing lights and strobes.
Audio Described and Captioned performance with pre-show Touch Tour: Sat 19 Sep, 2.30pm

‘They defend me. They attack me. It seems to me the world is consumed with curiosity about me and will remain so for the rest of time. And I will tell you why. They do want the answer. They want the mystery.’

Jenny Seagrove (Judge John Deed) reprises her critically acclaimed performance in Royce Ryton’s The Anastasia File, as part of The Theatre Royal Windsor Season on tour.

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.

Directed by Roy Marsden, Seagrove is joined by Simon Shepherd (Peak Practice), Ashley D. Gayle (The Shawshank Redemption) and Rosie Thomson (EastEnders). Memory, fact and fiction intertwine in this thrilling and moving drama that will keep you guessing long after the curtain falls.

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Booking dates:
Friends Plus: Tue 21 Apr
Friends: Thu 23 Apr
Flexi Priority Pass, Groups & Schools: Tue 28 Apr
General: Thu 30 Apr

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