Anna Karènina

Teatre Nacional de Catalunya / Carme Portaceli

Anna falls in love, and just then, like an omen she senses, death begins to hang over the whole play. It's clear that Tolstoy has read Flaubert because Anna repeats the same words as Emma Bovary when she decides to stop letting herself be pushed around: everything is a lie, everything is deception, everything is false, everything is evil. Like Emma, the road to happiness will cost her life. This hypocritical society will not allow her to do what they would like to do but dare not.

Run time 190 minutes incl. intermission
Genre Theatre
Language Catalan
Surtitles Dutch and English

In Gesprek Fri May 30

Dutch opening night Thu May 29

Anna Karènina

Who is Anna when she abandons her husband and child? Who is Anna without the family name that gives her a place in the world? What do others see when she breaks with the hypocritical society around her? Why does everyone always project themselves onto women? Why can't we have control over our own bodies? Why are we ‘the woman’, instead of being women, different and bound together by an unfair history that has been shared throughout the world and since time immemorial? What does each of us project when we see a woman's body?
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Anna and the other women in the play are brought on stage to stand trial. But before they do, they will tell us what really happened to them, how they felt (no one cared, of course) and what drove one of them to commit suicide.

There is so much beauty in Anna Karènina: a powerful and transformative spiritual river that constantly reminds us that beyond the inertia of desire with which we devour each other, there may still be time to find a place where we can dream of happiness.

Friday 30 May

In Gesprek

After the performance, come and think, listen and chat at In Gesprek. We invite a guest to further explore the themes of Anna Karènina and to exchange experiences. If you have any questions, this is the perfect time to ask them. In Gesprek is free of charge and starts shortly after the performance in one of our foyers, is conducted in Dutch and lasts about half an hour.

Credits

author Lev Tolstoy
direction Carme Portaceli
adaptation Anna Maria Ricart Codina (based on the translation by Andreu Nin)
dramaturgy Carme Portaceli and Anna Maria Ricart Codina
stage design Paco Azorín and Alessandro Arcangeli
costumes Carlota Ferrer
lighting design Ignasi Camprodon
choreography Ferran Carvajal
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sound space and music Jordi Collet
sound design Carles Gómez
photographer Geraldine Leloutre
cast Jordi Collet, Andie Dushime, Borja Espinosa, Eduard Farelo, Ariadna Gil, Miriam Moukhles, Bernat Quintana, Bea Segura
coproduction TNC (Teatre Nacional de Catalunya), KVS (Royal Flemish Theatre of Brussels), Internationaal Theater Amsterdam