A new stage adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is coming to the stage, starring Natalie Dormer and David Oakes.
The production will run at Chichester Festival Theatre, as part of its new 2025 season, playing from 7 to 28 June 2025.
Anna Karenina is adapted and directed by Phillip Breen, and promises to be a witty and sensual version of Tolstoy’s masterpiece, blending period dress with a contemporary tone.
The production stars real-life couple Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games), who plays Anna, and David Oakes (Victoria, Vikings: Valhalla) as Levin.
Dormer and Oakes have previously starred together in Venus in Fur at the West End’s Theatre Royal Haymarket.
The cast also includes Donna Berlin (The Chalk Garden, Wicked) as Countess Vronskaya, Jonnie Broadbent (The Norman Conquests, Much Ado About Nothing) as Stiva, Seamus Dillane (The Invention of Love, Richard II) as Vronsky, Tomiwa Edun (Romeo and Juliet, Trigger Point) as Karenin, Sandy Foster (Mr Turner, Fisherman’s Friends) as Countess Lydia, Ivan Ivashkin (Mission: Impossible) as Nikolai, Shalisha James-Davis (The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet) as Kitty, Anne Lacey (The Secret Garden, Shetland) as Agafya, Marcia Lecky (Coriolanus, Brian and Maggie) as Princess Scherbatskaya, Riad Richie (Casualty, Infamous) as Titus, and Naomi Sheldon (The Girlfriend, Witness for the Prosecution) as Dolly.
Set in 19th century Russia, the story centres on Anna Karenina, the beautiful wife of a powerful government official, who dares to step outside the bounds of society to risk a dangerous and destructive love affair with the magnetic Count Vronsky.
Joining Phillip Breen in the creative team are: set designer Max Jones, costume designer Ruth Hall, lighting designer Anna Watson, composer Paddy Cunneen, sound designer Dyfan Jones, movement director Ayse Tashkiran, and casting director Helena Palmer CDG.
Anna Karenina is playing at Chichester Festival Theatre from 7 to 28 June 2025.
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