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VenueLyttelton (National Theatre)
Also: Lyttelton Loft
TownWest End
CountyGreater London
From23rd May 2007
Opened30th May 2007
To18th August 2007
PricesFrom £10.00. To £39.50.
Lyttelton (National Theatre) (V374)
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Philistines

Philistines

Work:: Philistines (S962136300)

Sung at a funeral and a wedding today. The full gamut of the human experience from the ridiculous to the utterly pointless. A restless bunch of young radicals hang out, have sex, dance, drink, moan and philosophise at the home of a prosperous decorator. While Pyotr, a sometime student of law, falls for the lovely, loose-living lodger, his sister carps on about the tedium of life, lusts after Nil - who's blind to her charms but in pursuit of the servant - and botches her own suicide. Life. People shout, fight, eat and go to bed. When they wake up? They start shouting again. In this house everything fades quickly. Tears, laughter. Everything. Dissipates. The last sounds ringing out over the lake. Then nothing. A banal hum. A household falls to pieces as the personal and political turmoil of pre-revolutionary Russia gathers pace. Gorky's darkly comic first play of 1902, banned from public performance under the Czarist regime, is seen here in an exuberant new version by Andrew Upton.
Author Maxim Gorky
Adapted by Andrew Upton

Production:: (T01314219651)

Producer National Theatre
Director Howard Davies
Design Bunny Christie
Lighting Neil Austin
Music Dominic Muldowney
Sound Christopher Shutt
Performer Rory Kinnear (Pyotr)
Performer Ruth Wilson (Tanya)
Performer Phil Davis (Vassilly)
Performer Conleth Hill (Teterev)
Performer Duncan Bell (Perchikin)
Performer Mark Bonnar (Nil)
Performer Jonathan Bryan (Shyshkin)
Performer Marcus Cunningham (Doctor)
Performer Susannah Fielding (Polya)
Performer Rendah Heywood (Tsvetaeva)
Performer Stephanie Jacob (Akulina)
Performer Maggie McCarthy (Stepanida)
Performer Justine Mitchell (Elena)
Performer Mike Aherne (Old Man)
Performer Danny Nutt (Ensemble)
Performer Charlotte Pyke (Ensemble)
Performer Julia West (Old Crone)

Listing:: L01322880393




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Special Performances


  • 25 Jul 07 Open Captioned (STAGETEXT)
  • 17 Aug 07 Audio Described
  • 18 Aug 07 Audio Described
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