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A summer of pleasure. A storm on the horizon.
It's a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russia's elite retreat to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. When they're having this much fun, why care about anything else? But Varvara just can't shake the feeling that their holiday idyll is built on borrowed time. As the party continues, how long can they ignore the storm on the horizon? Deputy Artistic Director Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky's Edge) directs Maxim Gorky's razor-sharp portrait of class, privilege and denial, revived for 2026 in a new adaptation from Nina Raine (Consent) and Moses Raine (Donkey Heart).Read moreLess
It's a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russia's elite retreat to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. When they're having this much fun, why care about anything else? But Varvara just can't shake the feeling that their holiday idyll is built on borrowed time. As the party continues, how long can they ignore the storm on the horizon? Deputy Artistic Director Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky's Edge) directs Maxim Gorky's razor-sharp portrait of class, privilege and denial, revived for 2026 in a new adaptation from Nina Raine (Consent) and Moses Raine (Donkey Heart).
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It's a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russia's elite retreat to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. When they're having this much fun, why care about anything else? But Varvara just can't shake the feeling that their holiday idyll is built on borrowed time. As the party continues, how long can they ignore the storm on the horizon? Deputy Artistic Director Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky's Edge) directs Maxim Gorky's razor-sharp portrait of class, privilege and denial, revived for 2026 in a new adaptation from Nina Raine (Consent) and Moses Raine (Donkey Heart).
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Rebecca BanatvalaSasha/Understudy Varvara Bassova
Tomas BarrettMaxim Zimin/Understudy Vlass
Tamika BennettSonya
Pip CarterPavel Sergeyich Ryumin
Peter ForbesSemyon Semyonich Dvoyetochiye
Brandon GraceNikolai Petrovich Zamislov
Arthur HughesPyotr Ivanich Suslov
Ivan IvashkinEnsemble/Understudy Pavel Ryumin/Understudy Kropilkin/Understudy Pustobaika
Sam Jenkins-ShawKropilkin/Understudy Pyotr Suslov/Understudy Sergei Bassov
Gwyneth KeyworthOlga Alekseyevna
Daniel LapaineYakov Petrovich Shalimov
Alex LawtherVlass MikhailichExplore the crew
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