The National Theatre has announced casting for their revival of Maxim Gorky’s Summerfolk.
Summerfolk is playing in the Olivier theatre of the National Theatre from 6 March to 29 April 2026.
Adapted by Nina Raine and Moses Raine, Summerfolk is directed by the National’s Deputy Artistic Director Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge).
The cast includes Alex Lawther (The Imitation Game) as Vlass Mikhailich, Doon Mackichan (Smack the Pony) as Kaleria, Paul Ready (Motherland) as Sergei Vassilich Bassov, and Sophie Rundle (Peaky Blinders) as Varvara Mikhailovna.
The show also stars Rebecca Banatvala as Sasha, Thomas Barrett as Maxim Zimin, Tamika Bennett as Sonya, Pip Carter as Pavel Sergeyich Ryumin, Peter Forbes as Semyon Semyonich Dvoyetochiye, Brandon Grace as Nikolai Petrovich Zamislov, Arthur Hughes as Pyotr Ivanich Suslov, Sam Jenkins-Shaw as Kropilkin, Gwyneth Keyworth as Olga Alekseyevna, Daniel Lapaine as Yakov Petrovich Shalimov, Adelle Leonce as Yulia Filipovna, Justine Mitchell as Maria Lvovna, Sid Sagar as Kirill Akimovich Dudakov and Richard Trinder as Pustobaika.
The ensemble features Ivan Ivashkin, Aisha-Mae McCormick, Roisin Rae, Ellie Turner and Joe Usher.
Director Robert Hastie is joined in the creative team by set and costume designer Peter McKintosh, lighting designer Paul Pyant, sound designer Alexandra Faye Braithwaite, composer Nicola T. Chang, movement director Thomas Herron, Music Director Candida Caldicot, casting director Bryony Jarvis-Taylor CDG, voice coaches Shereen Ibrahim and Zoe Littleton, associate set designer Joseph Bisat Marshall, and BSL and staff director Lilac Yosiphon.
Set in Russia in 1905, Russia’s elite retreat in the summer to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. When they’re having this much fun, why care about anything else? But Varvara just can’t shake the feeling that their holiday idyll is built on borrowed time. As the party continues, how long can they ignore the storm on the horizon?
Summerfolk is running at the National Theatre from 6 March to 29 April 2026.
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