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2 Hours 40 Minutes including Interval
15-Mar-2010
07-Jul-2010
Matinees: 2.15pm Evenings: 7.30pm (various dates, please check calendar)
The White Guard Creative Team
Mikhail Bulgakov, in a new version by Andrew Upton
Howard Davies
Neil Austin
Sound by: Christopher Shutt; Music: Dominic Muldowney; Music Director: Dan Jackson
National Theatre
Franko (Graham Butler), Hetman (Anthony Calf), Lieutenant Galanba (Peter Campion), Larion Larionovich Surzhansky (Pip Carter), Cobbler (Gunnar Cauthery), Officer/Cadet (Hannah Croft), Uragon (Marcus Cunningham), Cossack (Paul Dodds), Colonel Vladimir Talberg (Kevin Doyle), Captain Alexander Studzinsky (Nick Fletcher), Alexei Vasilievich Turbin (Daniel Flynn), Kirpaty (Keiran Flynn), Officer 1/Doctor (Michael Grady-Hall), General von Shratt (Mark Healy), Nikolai Vasilievich Turbin (Richard Henders), Captain Viktor Myshlaevsky (Paul Higgins), Lieutenant Leonid Shervinsky (Conleth Hill), Orderly (Nick Julian), Bolbotun (Dermot Kerrigan), Oberlieutenant von Durst (Stuart Martin), Fyodr/Maxim (Barry McCarthy), Officer/Cadet (Daniel Millar), Elena Vasilievna Turbin-Lena (Justine Mitchell)
The White Guard
Lyttelton Theatre, The South Bank, London SE1 9PX
Call us on 0207 993 5322 for booking details!
The National stages Andrew Upton's vigorous new version of Mikhail Bulgakov's rarely performed masterpiece, unrivalled in its depiction of the near-farcical mayhem of civil war across a vast and vivid canvas.
In Kiev during the Russian Civil War, the Turbin household is sanctuary to a ragtag, close-knit crowd presided over by the beautiful Lena. As her brothers prepare to fight for the White Guard, friends charge in from the riotous streets amidst an atmosphere of heady chaos, quaffing vodka, keeling over, declaiming, taking baths, playing guitar, falling in love. But the new regime is poised and in its brutal triumph lies destruction for the Turbins and their world. And those are the real enemies we face, deep in the shadows.
This modern man with no name, no past, no love. This desperate hate-filled man born of loneliness and frustration. This man with nothing to be proud of, nothing he is part of...
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