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Fathers and Sons

The evening leaves you pondering not just the play's political implications but the ageless tragedy of parent child relationship.

London Guardian

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

In rural Russia in the mid nineteenth century, a brilliant, anarchic young medical student arrives at the provincial family villa of his best friend, Arkady, for the summer vacation. He wants to despise the family for their imperturbable complacency and bourgeois effeteness, but he is tormented by conflicting emotions. His desperate action has tragic consequences.

REVIEWS:

The evening leaves you pondering not just the play's political implications but the ageless tragedy of parent child relationship.

London Guardian

Drama at its most stimulating and eloquent...has the density, complexity and richness of a great 19th century novel without the usual creaking stage mechanism of dramatized fiction.

New York Daily News

A fine, solid piece of drama not just about the divisions between the different generations but also about nihilism, revolution and the immutability of love.

Time Out
Premiere Production: Fathers and Sons opened at the Lyttelton Theatre, South Bank, London, on 8 July, 1987.
  • Casting: 9M, 6F

  • ARKADY NIKOLAYEVICH KIRSANOV - Studeny (twenty-two)
    YEVGENY VASSILYICH BAZAROV - Student (twenty-two)
    NIKOLAI PETROVICH KIRSANOV - Arkady's father; estate owner (forty-four)
    PAVEL PETROVICH KIRSANOV - Arkady's uncle; retired guardsman (forty-five)
    VASSILY IVANYICH BAZAROV - Bazarov's father; retired army doctor (sixties)
    ARINA VLASSYEVNA BAZAROV - Bazarov's mother (fifties)
    FENICHKA FEDOSYA NIKOLAYEVNA - Nikolai's mistress (twenty-three)
    ANNA SERGEYEVNA ODINTSOV - Estate owner; widow (twenty-nine)
    KATYA SERGEYEVNA - Anna's sister (eighteen)
    PRINCESS OLGA - Anna's aunt (seventies)
    DUNYASHA - Servant in Kirsanov home (twenties)
    PROKOFYICH - Servant in Kirsanov home (sixties)
    PIOTRM - Servant in Kirsanov home (nineteen)
    TIMOFEICH - Servant in Bazarov home (sixties)
    FEDKA - Servant in Bazarov home (sixteen)
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    In rural Russia in the mid nineteenth century, a brilliant, anarchic young medical student arrives at the provincial family villa of his best friend, Arkady, for the summer vacation. He wants to despise the family for their imperturbable complacency and bourgeois effeteness, but he is tormented by conflicting emotions. His desperate action has tragic consequences.

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