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Sara
by Patrick Miles
Sara
was a Jewess.
For Ivanov, she left her family and became a Christian.
Now as she fights illness, his love begins to fade.
Imprisoned in a community driven by spite and gossip, can
she find the power and faith to bring him back to her?
World
Premiere
WHen.
Bridewell Theatre, London
9th February - 6th March 1999
The
Cast
Julia
Stubbs - Sara
Mark Gillis - Ivanov
Glen Supple - L'vov
Tor Clark - Sasha
Noni Connor - Zinaida
Richard Gofton - Lebedev
Maitland Chandler - Shabel'skiy
Bridget Fry - Babakina
Nick Barnes - Borkin
Fiona Aldridge, Rachael Hudson, Tom Rushforth
- Guests
The
Creative Team
Timothy
Hughes - Director
Jon Howes - Set and Costume Designer
Tim Bray - Lighting Designer
Michael Winship - Sound Designer
Patrick
Miles - Playwright
Collaborates again with Weaver Hughes Ensemble following
the success of the company's first production - his new translation
of DUCK HUNTING. He is one of the foremost translators of
Russian literature in the country. He spent two and a half
years in Russia in the 1970s and 1980s and was made ‘persona
non grata’ by the Communist regime. He has directed his own
translations of IVANOV, THE CHERRY ORCHARD and Chekhov’s vaudevilles
on the Edinburgh Fringe, and has translated Turgenev, Bulgakov,
Vampilov and Rozovskiy for the National Theatre (where he
was literary consultant for two years). Patrick is also editor
of CHEKHOV ON THE BRITISH STAGE(Cambridge University Press,
1993) and runs his own translation agency in Cambridge.
'Chekhov's
tragi-comic vision of the lives cracking under the weight
of self-absorption remains intact in this modern dress version.'
Time Out
'A
fascinating treatment of Chekhov's play Ivanov.'
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