There’s Never Been a Woman Like Anna Karenina
Det har aldrig funnits en kvinna som Anna Karenina / By Tone Schunnesson / Stage Direction: Ragna Wei / The Orionteatern Stockholm in cooperation with Riksteatern
Intoxicating desires and broken hearts: She’s not unhappy. But she’s not happy either. There is love in Anna Karenina’s marriage, sure. It’s just not the euphoric, fucked up, wonderful, passionate kind of love. This kind of love that Anna Karenina doesn’t even know she is missing. Until she meets Count Vronsky and her whole life is turned upside down. Both are seized by a strong passion and they start a forbidden love affair. Anna is full of life, desire and longing. Of jealousy, doubts and fears. She has a husband and children. What to do? Anna Karenina has to make a fateful decision. What is the price for a passion so strong that neither her nor the world around her will ever be the same again after?
Tone Schunnesson and Ragna Wei freely interpret Leo Tolstoy’s classic story in a new way, showing the strong societal contradictions between real feelings and material riches. Their language is intense and full of images, excessive and exuberant, sentimental and at the same time characterised by a stark humour.