"I must have lost my mind. It was like
an eclipse... or rather, as if we had
both suffered some kind of sunstroke."
"Thought-provoking, mournful and altogether enchanting."
Russian Art & Culture
"A beautifully textured conflation of romantic Russian dalliances"
Donald Hutera, The Times
"Leaves a poignant and lasting impression... a captivating
representation of love"
A Younger Theatre
"An intriguing, inventive and intertwined performance... fascinating"
The Lady
Cast
Rosy Benjamin
Stephen Pucci
Oliver King
Katia Elizarova
Masumi Saito
Creative Team
Director: Oleg Mirochnikov
Movement Director: Liana Nyquist
Associate Director: Sophia Stocco
Designer: Agnes Treplin
Lighting Designer: Howard Hudson
Sound Designer: Michael Umney
Projection Design: Simon Eves
Design Assistant: Annalisa Terranova
Technician: Alex Hopkins
Costume Assistants: Claire Blake &
Yueer Zhang
Operator: Diana Fraser
Production Manager:
David Leigh-Pemberton
Platform Theatre
28 August - 21 September 2013
Sunstroke
PLATFORM THEATRE
Kings Cross
Inspired by the stories of
Anton Chekhov & Ivan Bunin
A blisteringly hot Russian summer: a Muscovite banker meets a solitary married woman on the Russian Riviera; a dashing lieutenant on board a holiday steamer has a chance encounter with a beautiful young woman. In the intoxicating heat, passions burn high and their lives are changed forever.
Two of the great masters of Russian literature, Anton Chekhov and Ivan Bunin, explore the bittersweet nature of love outside marriage, its romantic idealism and the painful realisation of irreversible loss.
Chekhov's The Lady with the Dog and Bunin's Sunstroke were dynamically adapted for the stage for the first time by Belka Productions.
