Anna Karenina (Stage Version) - by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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

Across the vast panorama of nineteenth-century Russia, everyone is searching for answers in a society on the brink of collapse: Anna Karenina is risking a dangerous love affair with the magnetic Count Vronsky. Levin is wrestling with his thwarted devotion to Kitty. Kitty's been left broken-hearted by Vronsky, and her sister Dolly struggles to reconcile the burdens of repeated childbearing with her husband's continual philandering.

Phillip Breen's witty and sensual stage adaptation of Tolstoy's masterpiece takes us into the hearts and minds of its conflicted, very human characters, and offers a surprisingly funny and deeply moving portrait of infidelity, passion and the search for fulfillment.

Review Quotes

"A magnificently opulent adaptation that provides wonderful entertainment...A surprisingly funny, romantic and unforgettable portrait of infidelity, passion and the search for fulfilment."

--Broadway World

"Phillip Breen's adaptation is always original, without playing fast and loose with the story...it fizzes with theatrical brilliance."

--Guardian

"A rambunctious new telling of Tolstoy's story...both epic and absorbing."

--WhatsOnStage

About the Author

Phillip Breen is a theatre director whose work encompasses opera, theatre, comedy, musicals, jazz cabaret, large-scale community theatre projects, new work, and classics. As a writer, his adaptations include Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, and Red or Dead by David Peace.