The Red Russian Girl
-Judy M. Drew                                                  
Executive Director Third Avenue Playhouse
Sturgeon Bay, WI

"Geologist Roger Kuhns has had quite a life.  His travels have taken him from the
sands of the Sahara Desert to the diamond mines of northern Siberia. A gifted writer
and musician, Kuhns has used his life experiences to craft monologues that are as
culturally and scientifically enlightening as they are emotionally moving.

In Red Russian Girl, Kuhns deftly weaves the stories of the people he encountered  to
form a powerful cultural-political-geological image of the Soviet Union struggling in the
aftermath of Perestroika. In Crocodiles in the Desert, he moves easily between the
changing ecology and climate of the West African Sahel and spellbinding tales of a
mysterious people who claim to have seen both aliens and crocodiles in their desert
land. Political and cultural turmoil in Tanzania becomes the backdrop for the
turbulence in his own life in Jesus in Sumbawanga, a monologue that is at once global
in scope and intensely personal.

Like most good artists, Kuhns has a gift for finding what resonates with his audiences.
Although the locations and cultures he explores may be outside our experiences, he
ultimately guides us to see our own struggles and triumphs mirrored in their stories.
Fringe Fest Reviews
Dream Time Down Under

Other Reviews
Jungle Gold
-Sheila Sabrey-Saperstein
The Peninsula Pulse / April 8, 2005
Praise for the Monologues of Roger Kuhns