Anna Karenina

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Paperback, 96 pages ISBN: 9781839044700Publication Date:
19 Jun 2025
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
Ebook, 96 pages ISBN: 9781788508988Publication Date:
19 Jun 2025
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
First Staged:
Chichester Festival Theatre, 2025

Anna Karenina (stage version)

By Leo Tolstoy Adapted by Phillip Breen

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From Sat 7 Jun 2025 to Sat 28 Jun 2025

All happy families are alike. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Across the vast panorama of 19th-century Russia – from the glittering salons of Moscow and St Petersburg to its remote country estates – everyone is searching for answers in a society on the brink of collapse.

Anna Karenina, the beautiful wife of a powerful government official, dares to step outside the bounds of society to risk a dangerous and destructive love affair with the magnetic Count Vronsky.

Meanwhile, country landowner Levin is in pursuit of a new way to live and wrestling with his thwarted devotion to Kitty, who's been left broken-hearted by Vronsky. Her sister Dolly struggles to reconcile constant child-bearing with her husband's constant philandering.

Their dreams and despairs are mirrored in the tensions between individual and society, modernity and tradition, city and countryside, faith and doubt.

Phillip Breen's witty and sensual version of Tolstoy's masterpiece – blending period dress with a contemporary tone – takes us into the hearts and minds of its conflicted, very human characters. A surprisingly funny, romantic and unforgettable portrait of infidelity, passion and the search for fulfilment.

Anna Karenina is premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2025.

Performing rights not held by Nick Hern Books

Paperback,96 pages ISBN: 9781839044700Publication Date:
19 Jun 2025
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
This edition isn't available yet, but you can be amongst the first to receive it by pre-ordering now! Pre-order
Ebook,96 pages ISBN: 9781788508988Publication Date:
19 Jun 2025
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
Available Soon
Professional Production On Stage at:
Chichester Festival Theatre Sat 7 Jun 2025 - Sat 28 Jun 2025

Also by Leo Tolstoy:

War and Peace
Anna Karenina

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Also by Phillip Breen:

Red or Dead

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