Tolstoy’s melodramatic impulse means it can only end badly, but with the men variously feckless and detached and the women resistant and assertive, this is a sparky feminist cry for liberation.Īt the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, until 3 June. Where she was calm facing down her jealous husband (Stephen McCole) and temperate placating her aggrieved sister-in-law (Jamie Marie Leary), now she is both imbalanced – heavy hints of Lady Macbeth – and free to speak her mind. Their arguments bounce across each other in a choreographed collision of ideas about love, fidelity and commitment, the themes of the novel finding theatrical form.īy this point, Campbell has gone from the pragmatic mother to a woman let loose from social constraints. While Anna (Lindsey Campbell) squares up to Vronsky (Robert Akodoto), whose allure is wearing off, Kitty (Tallulah Greive) loses patience with Levin (Ray Sesay), the husband who is too sensitive for his own good. The approach reaches its height in a circling conflict between the two central couples in an excellently acted production. The narrative centres on the adulterous affair between Anna, wife of Aleksey Karenin, and Count Vronsky, a young bachelor. Constant movement … Lesley Hart’s adaptation of Anna Karenina. Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett (Translator) Anna Karenina, novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in installments between 18 and considered one of the pinnacles of world literature.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |