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Alexander Griboyedov - Play
Anthony Burgess - English translation
Jonathan Kent - Director
Tim Hatley - Design
Mark Henderson - Lightning
Summary:
19th Century Russia.
Chatsky, comes back to Moscow after an absence of three years abroad, doesn't like what he sees, and says so, loud and clear. His particular disenchantment is finding out that Sophie, the girl he loves, has been having a clandestine affair with his father's clerk, a smarmy and unscrupulous careerist. But his rage soon fans out to embrace everything else he dislikes about Moscow society - its snobbery, stupidity, hypocrisy, inane francophilia.
Cast:Sarah Crowden - Countess Khryumina, the granddaughter
Jonathan Cullen - Molchalin
Minnie Driver - Liza
Colin Firth - Chatsky
John Fortune - Skalozuh
Jane Freeman - Countess Khryumina, the grandmother
Bob Goody - Gorich
Rebecca Harries - Princess
Sean Harris - Peter, servant
Jemma Redgrave - Sophie
