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Description for Anna Karenina
Paperback. Helen Edmundson's celebrated and 'exemplary adaptation' (The Times) of Leo Tolstoy's enduring classic is a vibrant and deeply moving meditation on the nature of love. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 187 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
Helen Edmundson's celebrated and 'exemplary' (The Times) adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's enduring classic is a vibrant and deeply moving meditation on the nature of love.
Anna is beautiful and admired but empty – until a chance meeting throws her into emotional turmoil and a scandalous affair. Contrasting with this tale of destructive love is the story of Levin, an idealistic man striving to find meaning in life – and a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.
Helen Edmundson's stage adaptation of Anna Karenina was first performed by Shared Experience at the Theatre Royal, Winchester, in January 1992 at the start ... Read more
This edition of the play was published alongside a revival at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2011.
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
90
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848421974
SKU
V9781848421974
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About Leo Tolstoy
Helen Edmundson's first play, Flying, was presented at the National Theatre Studio in 1990. In 1992, she adapted Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for Shared Experience, for whom she also adapted The Mill on the Floss in 1994. Both won awards – the TMA and the Time Out Awards respectively – and both productions were twice revived and extensively toured. ... Read more
Reviews for Anna Karenina
'Theatre this engrossing is rare'
Time Out
'The aim is not to report the novel but to recreate it as a piece of theatre... a dramatisation which is symbolically accurate as well as theatrically compelling'
Guardian
Time Out
'The aim is not to report the novel but to recreate it as a piece of theatre... a dramatisation which is symbolically accurate as well as theatrically compelling'
Guardian