Anton Chekhov's Ivanov is playing now at the National Theatre, as part of the Young Chekhov season
Nikolai Ivanov is only 35, a radical and a romantic, but already he’s feeling that he’s thrown his life away. Determined not to become a small-town Hamlet, he hopes one last desperate romance may save him from a society rotten with anti-Semitism and drink. This electric play is powered both by hilarious satire and passionate self-disgust.
Adapted by David Hare whose stage plays include Skylight, Pravada and screenplays include The Hours and The Reader, Ivanov is directed by Jonathan Kent (Gypsy, Private Lives).
Having opened last year to overwhelming acclaim at Chichester Festival Theatre, The Young Chekhov trilogy is now at the National, offering a unique chance to explore the birth of a revolutionary dramatic voice.
At the National's Olivier Theatre, book your Ivanov tickets today!