Ivanov
Overview of the production
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Nikolai has forgotten how to be happy. Or was he ever? Is it just burnout? He’s married to the perfect woman, he’s had a successful career: he should be heading into mid-life feeling confident and settled. Sure there’s some debts piling up, and his wife has been laid low with unexplained illnesses recently but they’ve jumped bigger hurdles before. What exactly is gnawing at him? Why does the world feel like it’s falling apart? Maybe he just needs to shake it off. There’s a party at the Lebedevs tonight!
As he tumbles from misstep to faux-pas Nikolai tries to resuscitate his lust for life. Anna sacrificed everything to marry him: her conservative parents even disowned her because of his political leanings. He knows he owes her happiness. He just can’t seem to remember where he left it. Not that going out partying every night is helping her opinion of him very much. But the alternative is staying at home and letting her see how miserable he is. Something needs to change, they all know it. Except when change comes it’s in the absurd, undignified form life often presents it to us in: an affair.
Can Nikolai save his marriage, his will to live, and his career all at once? Or was it always destined to go tits up?
Simon Stone brings Chekhov’s keenly observed comic drama hurtling into the contemporary world, joined by the same creative team that brought the “fantastically original, gripping and magnificent” (The Guardian) The Lady from the Sea to life.
Written and directed by Simon Stone (The Lady from the Sea, Yerma, Phaedra), starring Chris Pine in his London Stage Debut.
Ivanov is presented by London Theatre Company in collaboration with Wouter van Ransbeek
Image credits: Photography Getty, Creative Muse Creative Communications
General Information
Length
TBC
Performance schedule
Monday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Thursday & Saturday: 2.30pm
please note latecomers may not be admitted
Age Guidance
This production contains mature themes. Initial age guidance is 12+. This may change as the production develops.
Access Performances
Captioned: Saturday 29 August 2.30pm
Audio Described & Touch Tour: Saturday 22 August 2.30pm
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Mon to Thu performances at £25 each, with 1 free teacher for every 10 pupils. Best available, excludes premium tickets. Minimum of 10 tickets
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Band A tickets at £95 reduced to £49.50, Band B tickets at £75 & £55 reduced to £39.50. Valid Mon to Thu. Minimum of 10 tickets
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Additional content
Cast
Chris Pine
Chris Pine is an American actor, director, producer and writer known for his wide-ranging roles across film, television, and stage. He has received critical acclaim for his performance in films such as Star Trek, Hell or High Water and Wonder Woman. Pine’s notable stage work includes The Atheist (Center Stage, NY), Fat Pig (Geffen Playhouse), Farragut North (Geffen Playhouse), and The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Mark Taper Forum) and two seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He made his directorial debut with Poolman and continues to showcase his versatility with stage and voice roles. Pine founded Barry Linen Motion Pictures and recently published his first children’s book, When Digz the Dog Met Zurl the Squirrel.
Creative Team
Simon Stone
Anton Chekhov
Wouter van Ransbeek
Lizzie Clachan
Theatre includes A Number at The Bridge; The Son at the Kiln (also West End); The Nico Project at Manchester International Festival and Melbourne Festival; Rutherford and Son, Absolute Hell, As You Like It, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Treasure Island, Edward II, Port and A Woman Killed With Kindness at the National Theatre; Cyprus Avenue (also Dublin, Belfast and New York), Fireworks, Adler & Gibb, Gastronauts, The Witness, Our Private Life, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Ladybird and Jumpy (also West End) at the Royal Court; Far Away, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Blindness (also New York, Toronto, Washington, DC, Mexico City, Amsterdam and UK tour) at the Donmar; Yerma (also New York and Berlin), The Life of Galileo, Macbeth and A Season in the Congo at the Young Vic; Tipping the Velvet, Contains Violence and Absolute Beginners at the Lyric Hammersmith; The Skriker at the Royal Exchange; Carmen Disruption at the Almeida; All My Sons at Regent’s Park; A Sorrow Beyond Dreams at Burgtheater, Vienna; Longing, The Trial of Ubu and Tiger Country at the Hampstead; The Rings of Saturn at Schauspiel, Cologne; Happy Days at the Crucible; Far Away at Bristol Old Vic; I’ll Be the Devil, Days of Significance and The American Pilot for the RSC; and The Architects, Money, Tropicana, Amato Saltone, Ether Frolics, Dance Bear Dance, The Ballad of Bobby Francois and The Tennis Show for Shunt, which she co-founded in 1998.
Opera includes The Mask of Orpheus, Orphée, Orpheus in the Underworld and Orpheus and Euridice for ENO; Seven Deadly Sins/Mahagonny Songspiel at the Royal Opera House; Nixon in China for Staatsoper Hanover; Jenufa for Nationale Opera & Ballet; La Traviata for Theater Basel/ENO; Pelléas et Mélisande for Teatr Wielki, Poland/ Festival d’Aix en Provence; Le Vin Herbé for Staatsoper Berlin; and Bliss for Staatsoper Hamburg.
October 2021