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National Theatre at Home: Summerfolk
A summer of pleasure. A storm on the horizon.
It's a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russia's elite retreat to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. When they're having this much fun, why care about anything else? But Varvara just can't shake the feeling that their holiday idyll is built on borrowed time. As the party continues, how long can they ignore the storm on the horizon? Deputy Artistic Director Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky's Edge) directs Maxim Gorky's razor-sharp portrait of class, privilege and denial, revived for 2026 in a new adaptation from Nina Raine (Consent) and Moses Raine (Donkey Heart).
Cast
- Rebecca Banatvala as Sasha/Understudy Varvara Bassova
- Tomas Barrett as Maxim Zimin/Understudy Vlass
- Tamika Bennett as Sonya
- Pip Carter as Pavel Sergeyich Ryumin
- Peter Forbes as Semyon Semyonich Dvoyetochiye
- Brandon Grace as Nikolai Petrovich Zamislov
- Arthur Hughes as Pyotr Ivanich Suslov
- Ivan Ivashkin as Ensemble/Understudy Pavel Ryumin/Understudy Kropilkin/Understudy Pustobaika
- Sam Jenkins-Shaw as Kropilkin/Understudy Pyotr Suslov/Understudy Sergei Bassov
- Gwyneth Keyworth as Olga Alekseyevna
- Daniel Lapaine as Yakov Petrovich Shalimov
- Alex Lawther as Vlass Mikhailich
Details
- Director
- Robert Hastie
- Released
- July 7, 2026
- Runtime
- 2h 29m
- Genres
- Drama
- Studio
- National Theatre
- Status
- Released
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