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Ivanov
by
Anton Chekhov, in a new English version by Jeremy Brooks
and Kitty Hunter-Blair
An
RSC production
First performance at the Aldwych Theatre, London on
2nd September 1976.
Director: David Jones
Designer: William Dudley
Lighting: Stewart Leviton
Music: Carl Davis
Sound: Roland Morrow
Running time: approx. 150 mins
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Cast
(in
alphabetical order) |
Doyne Byrd.....Third Guest
Valerie Colgan.....Olga Semyonova, a dependent of the Lebedev
family
Patience Collier.....Avdotya Nazarovna, an old woman of
indefinite profession
Kenneth Cranham.....Lvov, Yevgeny Konstantinich, a young
doctor working for Zemstvo Council
Joe Dunlop.....Pyotr, Ivanov's manservant
Mia Farrow.....Sasha Pavlovna, daughter of Lebedev and
Zinaeeda
Carol Gillies.....Zinaeeda Savishna, Lebedev's wife
Patrick Godfrey.....Kosych, Dimitri Nikitich, an excise
officer
Larry Hoodekoff.....Gavrila, the Lebedev's manservant
Bob Hoskins.....Borkin, Mikhail Mikhailich, a distant
relative of Ivanov and manager of his estate
Estelle Kohler.....Anna Petrovna, Ivanov's wife, formerly
named Sarah Abramson
Raymond Marlowe.....Second Guest
Norman Rodway.....Lebedev, Pavel Kirillich, Chairman of
the Zemstvo Council
Sebastian Shaw.....Shabelsky, Count Matvey Seymonich,
Ivanov's maternal uncle
Richard Simpson.....First Guest
Zoë Wanamaker.....Babakina, Marfa Yegorovna, a young widow
John Wood.....Ivanov, Nikolai Alekseyich, permanent
member of the Zemstvo, with special responsibility for the
peasantry
Party Guests, Wedding Guests, etc.: Steven Beard; Joe
Dunlop; Diana Rowan; Clare Shenstone; Norman Tipton. |
Production |
| In a province of
Central Russia in the 1880s, workers must confront the modern
world. Landowner Ivanov faces a tragi-comic dilemma. |
Pictures |
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Notes |
| The theatre
programme notes that cast member Clare Shenstone is a
'Full time student at Chelsea School of Art'. Now
a successful artist, she has painted several
portraits of Zoe (see pages 1 and 3). |
Merchandise |
| Ivanov
text - translated by Peter Carson, with The Seagull,
Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard,
available from Amazon |
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