War and Peace
- By:
- Leon Tolstoy, adapted by Helen Edmundson
- Management:
- Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company, Hampstead Theatre and Shared Experience
- Cast:
- Richard Attlee, Marion Bailey, Geoffrey Beevers, Louise Ford, Theo Herdman, Barnaby Kay, Jeffrey Kissoon, Des McAleer, Hywel Morgan, Sophie Roberts, Vinette Robinson, David Sturzaker, Simon Thorp, Kate Wimpenny, Jonathan Woolf
- Director:
- Nancy Meckler and Polly Teale
- Design:
- Angela Simpson
- Sound:
- Peter Salem
- Lighting:
- Chris Davey
- Costumes:
- Yvonne Milnes (original by Bunny Christie)
- Choreography:
- movement by Liz Ranken
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Watching the characters develop or decline over a time-span of 15 years is utterly absorbing. Barnaby Kay gives a riveting performance as the clumsy, eager, ingenuous Pierre Bezuhov, whose ideology undergoes seismic shifts in the course of events... February 11, 2008
This is a huge theatrical event, not just in the performance of the double bill in a single day, but in the great intellectual buzz it engenders. Not only do you emerge feeling you have had a ringside seat at momentous events of history, but that you have somehow absorbed Tolstoy's philosophy intravenously and been able to relate it to the whole human condition... February 8, 2008
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