Ivanov

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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 BBC 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.