After Akhmatova (2011)

Produced by

Tarragon Theatre

Playwright: Kate Cayley
Director: Alan Dilworth

Venue

Tarragon Theatre – Extra Space

Run

March 22nd, 2011 – May 1st, 2011

Synopsis

WORLD PREMIERE

When Alan, a young American academic, travels to the U.S.S.R. to interview Lev Gumilyov, he believes he knows all there is to know about Lev’s late mother: Anna Akhmatova. Once a writer of love poems, Anna became famous for Requiem, which is an ode to her imprisoned son and a dangerous condemnation of Stalin. As he searches for answers, Alan becomes entangled in Lev’s relationship to his mother, to Requiem and to its impossible legacy.  (tarragontheatre.com)

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Cast

Claire Calnan	Lydia Chukovskaya
Paul Dunn	Alan Taylor
Caroline Gillis	Nedezhda Mandelstram
Eric Goulem	Lev Gumilyov
Richard McMillan	Osip Mandelstram
Sarah Orenstein	Anna Akhmatova

Creative Team

Kate Cayley	Playwright
Alan Dilworth	Director
Jung-Hye Kim	Set Designer
Jung-Hye Kim	Costume Designer
Kimberly Purtell	Lighting Designer
Thomas Ryder Payne	Sound Designer
Elise Newman	Assistant Director

Production

Kristen Kitcher	Stage Manager
Trenna Keating	Script Coordinator
Cylla von Tiedemann	Photographer
Morag Webster-Lesarge	Props Assistant
Nadia Ismail	Props Assistant
Stephanie Milic	Painter
Crystal Piché	Painter
Katherine Smith	Assistant Carpenter
Danielle Demeny	Wardrobe Assistant
Victoria Harrop	Interim Head Scenic Artist
Joey Morin	Lighting Crew
Verne Good	Lighting Crew
Nick Rose	Lighting Crew
John Thomson	Lighting Crew
Jason Golinsky	Lighting Crew
Sharon Ryman	Wig Construction
Angela McQueen	Wig Maintenance

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