Anna Karenina - Theater
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All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way – the famous first sentence of Tolstoy’s epic novel Anna Karenina immediately touches on the pain. The young mother Anna leads a seemingly carefree life in St. Petersburg with her husband. She appears to have everything needed for happiness, but she is not happy. When the charming Count Vronsky, who is in many ways the opposite of her husband, enters Anna’s life, she falls in unconditional love with him. By committing herself to Vronsky, Anna soon sacrifices everything her life has been: her husband, who refuses a divorce, her son, and the respect of society. Anna soon also feels misunderstood by the Count. What began as the "Greatest Love of All" quickly becomes a vortex of jealousy, hatred, and self-destruction.
Besides Anna, her husband, and her lover, Leo Tolstoy’s multilayered work paints a true panorama of wonderfully vibrant characters, each exploring the possible impossibility of being human and the impossible possibility of love and connection between man and woman, woman and man. In a new stage adaptation, director Frank Hoffmann and a fantastic ensemble will make Tolstoy’s masterpiece from 19th-century Russia about love, marriage, family, and morals immediately tangible on stage, with a vast set by German painter Ben Willikens, in a way that is both up-to-date and timeless.
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A new stage adaptation directed by Frank Hoffmann. Sets designed by the German painter Ben Willikens. Featuring several iconic characters from Tolstoy's work.
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Théâtre National du Luxembourg - TNL
194 Route de Longwy
1940 Luxembourg
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