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Summerfolk
by Maxim Gorky (1904)
Awards! Awards! Awards!
Laurence Olivier Awards - Trevor Nunn wins Best Director (for The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk and Troilus and Cressida) South Bank Show Award for Theatre - Winner Evening Standard Award - Trevor Nunn wins Best Director (for Summerfolk and The Merchant of Venice) Critics Circle Awards - Trevor Nunn wins Best Director (for Summerfolk and The Merchant of Venice)In the early years of the century, Russians of every social class were beginning to sense the onset of a great upheaval.
Gorky's mighty naturalistic masterpiece shows us a diverse group of Russians meeting, as they do every year, at their summer holiday retreat.
Some are frightened at the prospect of change, some are angry and some yearn for a new life. As they question the value of their work, their art and leisure, they're shocked by the responses their disputes reveal. Relationships break under the strain and scandals of business and infidelity are laid bare.
Running time: 3 hours 30 minutes
Cast credits:
: Aislinn Sands
: Alessia Battista
: Beverley Klein
: Caroline Nicholls
: Cathryn Bradshaw
: Ceri Ann Gregory
: David Weston
: Derbhle Crotty
: Elizabeth Reniham
: Emily Cooper
: Gabrielle Jourdan
: Henri McCarthy
: Jack James
: Jasper Britton
: Jim Creighton
: Juliet Aubrey
: Leigh McDonald
: Liam McKenna
: Martin Chamberlain
: Michael Bryant
: Myra Sands
: Oliver Cotton
: Patricia Hodge
: Philip Whitchurch
: Richard Henders
: Robert Burt
: Roger Allam
: Sean Mullin
: Simon Russell Beale
Production credits:
Director: Trevor Nunn
with Fiona Buffini
Designer: Christopher Oram
Lighting
Designer: Peter Mumford
Music: Steven Edis
Sound Designer: Paul Groothuis
Summerfolk finished on: 2 May 2000
