Ivanov [Drama On 3]

Rory Kinnear plays the title role in a new version of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's first major stage play. Ivanov is a man whose world is falling apart despite the best efforts of his delusional and self-absorbed friends and family. Writer/composer duo Katherine Tozer and John Chambers follow up their razor-sharp adaptations of The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull.

Nicholas Ivanov - Rory Kinnear

Sarah - Dorothea Myer-Bennett

Sasha - Holli Dempsey

Paul - Joseph Kloska

Matthew - Dominic Coleman

Michael - Tyger Drew-Honey

Luke - Clifford Samuel

Zuzu - Joan Iyiola

Martha - Saffron Coomber

Ava - Melanie Kilburn

Dominic - Nuhazet Diaz Cano

Cellist - Liz Hanks.

Sound designer - Peter Ringrose

Production Co-ordinator - Jenny Mendez

Directed by Toby Swift

A BBC Studios production for Radio 3.

In 1887, at the age of 27, Chekhov was commissioned to write a stage play. The result - Ivanov - was completed in just ten days and then premiered in Moscow towards the end of that year. Greatly disappointed, he rewrote the play and 14 months later it was produced in St. Petersburg where it was hailed as a triumph. Chekhov was maturing into the playwright now celebrated as the author of some of the greatest stage plays ever written.

Rory Kinnear stars as Nicholas Ivanov in a new version of Chekhov's stage classic.

Rory Kinnear stars as a man fighting to keep his head above water in Anton Chekhov's first major work for the stage. A new version by Katherine Tozer with music by John Chambers.

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