3 Feb - 26 Feb 1983

HOPE AGAINST HOPE

World première

adapted by Casper Wrede from the writings of

Nadezhda Mandelstam, Osip Mandelstam & Anna Akhmatova

Nedezhda Mandelstam AVRIL ELGAR
Osip Mandelstam DAVID HOROVITCH
Anna Akhmatova DILYS HAMLETT
Elena Bulgakova, Nurse,
Zinaida Pasternak, Secretary to Literary Fund SYBIL ALLEN
1st Agent, Abel Yenukidze, 1st Soldier, Voice of Stalin, Victor Scklovski, Kazarnowski DICKEN ASHWORTH
2nd Agent, Demian Bedny, Hospital Attendant, Militia Officer, 1st Officer DAVID BAUCKHAM
Janitor's Wife, Nadwzhda's Mother, Housekeeper, Secretary in the Writers' Union HELEN BLATCH
Man, Evgeni, Hospital Attendant, 2nd Agent, 2nd Officer PAUL BUTTERWORTH
Doctor, British Literary Historian PATRICIA HENEGHAN
Brodski, The Interrogator, Kornei, Chukovski PAUL IMBUSCH
Conductor, Nurse, Telegraph Girl, Housing Committee Secretary, Vassilissa Scklovski MELANIE KILBURN
3rd Agent, Lev Gumilev, Shura Mandelstam, Commandant, American University Professor BILL LEADBITTER
Lidia Seifullina BRICID MACKAY
Alexei Tolstoi, Boris Pasternak, Man with the Axe, The Physicist ROY SAMPSON
2nd Soldier, 1st Performer, Printer's Apprentice, Militia Clerk FERGUS McLARNON
3rd Soldier ROBIN BURCH

Director CASPER WREDE
Set designer STEPHEN McCABE
Costume designer DAVID SHORT
Lighting MICHAEL WILLIAMS
Sound JOHN DEL'NERO
Music GEORGE HALL
Assistant director CHRISTINA BURNETT