The Unconquered is a three-act play written by Russian-American author Ayn Rand as an

adaptation of her 1936 novel We the Living. Producer George Abbott staged the play
on Broadway in February 1940, featuring Helen Craig (pictured) as Kira Argounova, a young woman
living in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Her lover Leo Kovalensky develops tuberculosis. To get
money for his treatment, Kira has an affair with a Communist official, Andrei Taganov. After Leo
recovers from his illness, he becomes involved with black market food sales that Andrei is
investigating. When Andrei realizes that Kira loves Leo, he helps his rival avoid prosecution, then
commits suicide. Leo leaves Kira, who decides to risk her life escaping the country. The production
was troubled by problems with the script and the cast. When the play opened at the Biltmore
Theatre, it was a critical and financial failure, and closed in less than a week. It was the last of
Rand's plays produced during her lifetime. (Full article...)