Anna Karenina - Theater
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drama
“All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”—the famous opening line of Tolstoy’s epic novel Anna Karenina immediately announces the complexity of the story. Anna, a young mother, leads a seemingly carefree life with her husband in St. Petersburg. Despite every reason she might have to be happy, she is not. When the charming Count Vronsky, her husband’s opposite in many ways, bursts into her life, Anna surrenders to an unconditional passion. By confessing her love for Vronsky, she sacrifices everything that had previously constituted her life: her husband, who nevertheless refuses to divorce her, her son, and the respect of society. But soon, Anna also feels misunderstood by the Count. What began as “the greatest love story” quickly transforms into a maelstrom of envy, hatred, and self-destruction. With the same determination she had shown in choosing love, Anna chooses death.
Alongside Anna, her husband and her lover, Tolstoy develops in Anna Karenina a gallery of magnificent characters, each embodying in their own way the impossibility of love and human connection between man and woman, woman and man.
In a new stage adaptation, director Frank Hoffmann, accompanied by an impressive cast, will revive Tolstoy's major work, dealing with love, marriage, family and morality in 19th century Russia, against a backdrop of scenography by German painter Ben Willikens, thus offering a theatrical experience that is both current and timeless.
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Director: Frank Hoffmann
Set design: Ben Willikens
A show based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy, adapted for the stage.
Where does it take place?
Théâtre National du Luxembourg - TNL
194 Route de Longwy
1940 Luxembourg
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