麻豆约拍

Rory Kinnear plays the title role in a new version of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's first major stage play. Ivanov is a man whose world is falling apart despite the best efforts of his delusional and self-absorbed friends and family. Writer/composer duo Katherine Tozer and John Chambers follow up their razor-sharp adaptations of The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull.

Nicholas Ivanov ..... Rory Kinnear
Sarah ..... Dorothea Myer-Bennett
Sasha ..... Holli Dempsey
Paul ..... Joseph Kloska
Matthew ...... Dominic Coleman
Michael ..... Tyger Drew-Honey
Luke ..... Clifford Samuel
Zuzu ..... Joan Iyiola
Martha ..... Saffron Coomber
Ava ..... Melanie Kilburn
Dominic ..... Nuhazet Diaz Cano

Cellist ..... Liz Hanks.
Sound designer ..... Peter Ringrose
Production Co-ordinator ..... Jenny Mendez

Directed by Toby Swift
A 麻豆约拍 Studios production for Radio 3.

In 1887, at the age of 27, Chekhov was commissioned to write a stage play. The result - Ivanov - was completed in just ten days and then premiered in Moscow towards the end of that year. Greatly disappointed, he rewrote the play and 14 months later it was produced in St. Petersburg where it was hailed as a triumph. Chekhov was maturing into the playwright now celebrated as the author of some of the greatest stage plays ever written.