Anna Karenina

The critical consensus

It is classily done in a fluid and spacious staging.

(*) (*) Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 29/05/2011

Anna Karenina is renowned as a great epic, and the play is no different. It is an epic undertaking for Jemima Levick and her team, who have faced the difficult task of juggling themes, emotions and time head on. Ultimately, it pays off.

Jennifer Cosgrove, The Courier, 28/05/2011

It’s hard to resist the heartfelt integrity of Emily Winter’s Anna, a passionate woman who finds to her despair that her great love cannot survive her social death.

(*) Joyce McMillan, 27/05/2011

While slow-paced and bleak, both in its look and subject matter, the piece gains levity from some of its supporting performances, notably Robert Paterson as the chaotic civil servant Oblonsky and Ann Louise Ross as disgruntled housekeeper Agatha Mikhailovna.

(*) Allan Radcliffe, The List, 06/06/2011