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Category: Anna Karenina

An interview with Joanna Iwanicka

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Lifeline

Dramaturg Zev Valancy checked in with scenic designer Joanna Iwanicka about her work for our production of Anna Karenina. ZV: Anna Karenina is a story from a very different era, which nonetheless has real resonances with contemporary society. What about the story (and people working on this adaptation) made you want to design the set? […]

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An interview with Ilse Zacharias

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Lifeline

Dramaturg Zev Valancy checked in with actress Ilse Zacharias about preparing to play the role of Anna in our production of Anna Karenina. ZV: Were you familiar with Anna Karenina before you auditioned? What drew you to the character of Anna and made you want to be a part of the production? IZ: I watched the […]

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An interview with Jessica Wright Buha

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Lifeline

Dramaturg Zev Valancy sat down with Anna Karenina playwright Jessica Wright Buha to talk about her new take on the classic novel. ZV: When did you first read Anna Karenina? What about it spoke to you as something you needed to adapt for Lifeline? JWB: I first read Anna Karenina in January 2016. I was […]

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Leo Tolstoy, Russian Society, and ANNA KARENINA

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Lifeline

Note: This is a guest posting from Zev Valancy, dramaturg for our Winter MainStage production of Anna Karenina. Count Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy in Russian—“Leo” was chosen for his English publications because “Lev” means “lion”) was born in 1828 on an estate 200 km south of Moscow. After failing to complete a college degree […]

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