Columbia University presents a staged reading of playwright Sara Stridsberg's "Anatomy of a Snowfall" at Deutsches Haus. ..the story of a headstrong Girl King in the North who could not do what was expected of her: to marry and bear heirs. So she gave up the throne... ..a saga of birth, love, and death. (Remember Garbo as Sweden’s Queen Christina in Rouben Mamoulian’s film classic from 1934? Here’s today’s update.)
Translation by Verne Moberg and directed by Scandinavian American Theater Company's Lisa Pettersson Bearpark. Cast: Anna Zastrow, Alfred Gingold, Ben Beckley, Yvette Edelhart, Clayton Dean Smith, Will de Meo, Karin Agstam and Nina Ingemann.

Open to the general public, admission is free. For additional information, please call 212.568-0895 or e-mail vam1@columbia.edu.