Philistines
A restless bunch of young radicals hang out, have sex, dance, drink, moan and philosophise at the home of a prosperous decorator. While Pyotr, a sometime student of law, falls for the lovely, loose-living lodger, his sister carps on about the tedium of life, lusts after Nil – who’s blind to her charms but in pursuit of the servant – and botches her own suicide.
A household falls to pieces as the personal and political turmoil of pre-revolutionary Russia gathers pace. Gorky’s darkly comic first play of 1902, banned from public performance under the Czarist regime, is seen here in an exuberant new version by Andrew Upton.
Cast & Crew
Cast
| Akulina | Stephanie Jacob |
|---|---|
| Doctor | Marcus Cunningham |
| Elena | Justine Mitchell |
| Ensemble | Saskia Butler |
| Ensemble | Danny Nutt |
| Ensemble | Charlotte Pyke |
| Nil | Mark Bonnar |
| Old Crone | Julia West |
| Old Man | Mike Aherne |
| Perchikin | Duncan Bell |
| Polya | Susannah Fielding |
| Pyotr | Rory Kinnear |
| Shyshkin | Jonathan Bryan |
| Stepanida | Maggie McCarthy |
| Tanya | Ruth Wilson |
| Teterev | Conleth Hill |
| Tsvetaeva | Rendah Heywood |
| Vassilly | Phil Davis |
Crew | |
| Designer | Bunny Christie |
| Director | Howard Davies |
| Lighting Designer | Neil Austin |
| Literal Translation | Charlotte Pyke |
| Music | Dominic Muldowney |
| Sound Designer | Christopher Shutt |
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Photo credits
- Philistines by Catherine Ashmore, Creative Commons Attribution
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