Is Maryna's ability to play different roles onstage and offstage a strength or weakness - or both?

How does Maryna's life demonstrate a woman's search for self-transformation and independence?

Having failed in their first attempt to create a utopian community in the Tatra Mountains of Poland, why does the group then decide to try again in America?

To what extent does the relative freedom of the New World enable Bogdan to experience his homosexual urges and Maryna to become aware of an attraction to Miss Collingridge, her voice tutor?

What is it about Poland and the Old World do the immigrants want to leave behind?

Discuss the role of Maryna and Ryszard as catalysts for each other's growth. Did they "use" each other in that growth or was there genuine affection?

What parallels do the visit of the evangelicals to Maryna's theater to warn...