Anna Karenina

By Leo Tolstoy
Adapted by Helen Edmundson

A hugely successful adaptation of Tolstoy's story of a woman whose life is destroyed by an adulterous affair, premiered by Shared Experience Theatre Company.

Winner of the Time Out Award for Outstanding Theatrical Event of 1992

Anna's story is here intertwined and contrasted with that of Levin, an idealistic young man for whom love and passion represent salvation and peace.

'Exemplary adaptation... succeeds beyond expectation' The Times

'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

Helen Edmundson's other adaptations for Shared Experience include The Mill on the Floss, War and Peace and Gone to Earth.