First performance of this production at the Almeida Theatre,

11 March 1993.

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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