![]() ![]() Across the two hour (-ish, plus interval) running time, they quietly convincingly put across these incredibly realised, changing, evolving, original versions of well-worn, pre-known characters that feel every bit as complex, human and readable as you could wish. Even Tom Gibbons’s sound design (that’s even the sound design, not even Tom Gibbons) is repeatedly noticeably doing really excellent things. Lizzie Powell’s lighting: again effortless again contemporary and stylish. Joanna Scotcher’s design is contemporary, intelligent and elegant. Ellen McDougall’s production inhabits the Exchange’s in-the-round space with fluidity, grace and precision. Jo Clifford’s script feels so effortless that you forget that someone’s only just finished writing it*. Although he does seem to begin to desire children and a family toward the end of the novel, when he begins pressing Anna for a divorce so any future children can belong legally to him, Vronsky is primarily a lone figure, not a family man for example, he never seems to display fatherly tendencies toward his daughter, Annie.The new adaptation of Anna Karenina at the Royal Exchange is outstanding. ![]() Vronsky lacks desire for commitment and does not seem to want to settle down and establish a family rather, he remains fundamentally single, even throughout his long relationship with Anna. Indeed, one of the reasons Tolstoy does not let the reader know too much about Vronsky or become too attached is because Vronsky himself remains a slightly aloof figure throughout. ![]() Yet even though Vronsky is somewhat two-dimensional, Tolstoy depicts him as a characteristic romantic protagonist, a strapping officer who lives by his passions, but does not get so deeply attached to anything that it consumes and destroys him. Tolstoy does not give the reader much insight into Vronsky’s psychology: we do not know why exactly he jilted Kitty, for example, nor are we quite sure how he feels about his relationship with Anna. Vronsky is a fine physical specimen who takes pride in his vitality. Their passionate affair causes Anna to leave her husband, Karenin eventually, the affair spirals into despair, and Anna commits suicide due to the tumultuous consequences of obsession. Vronsky is a dashing young military officer whom Anna falls in love with. ![]()
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