Details

Colonel Kotov, decorated hero of the Russian Revolution, is spending an idyllic summer in the country with his beloved young wife and family. But on one glorious sunny morning in 1936, his wife's former lover returns from a long and unexplained absence. Amidst a tangle of sexual jealousy, retribution and remorseless political backstabbing, Kotov feels the full, horrifying reach of Stalin's rule. I'll give you one chance. Go now and type your confession. I take you and the confession to Moscow tonight - two big feathers in my cap - and maybe, maybe.. they'll spare Maroussia... as the wife of a traitor. We all have a choice, Comrade. Poised at the beginning of Stalin's Great Terror, Burnt by the Sun shows a brutal future encroaching on the last days of a fading world.

Cast/Performers

Rowena Cooper (Lidia), Ciaran Hinds (Kotov), Stephanie Jacob (Mokhova), Rory Kinnear (Mitia), Pamela Merrick (Olga), Tony Turner (The Truck Driver), Michelle Dockery (Maroussia), Duncan Bell (Vsevolod), Skye Bennett (Nadia), Anna Burnett (Little Girl / Pioneer Girl), Anna Carteret (Elena), Rowena Cooper (Lidia), Marcus Cunningham (Aronin), Holly Gibbs (Nadia), Michael Grady-Hall (Andrushya / Pioneer Officer), Colin Haigh (Mironov), Harry Hepple (Pioneer Officer), Floss Hoffman (Little Girl / Pioneer Girl), Anne Kavanagh (Ensemble), Victoria Lennox (Ensemble), Tim McMullan (Kirik), Stuart Martin (Kolya / Pioneer Officer), Charlotte Pyke (Ensemble), Roger Ringrose (Blokhin), Hattie Webb (Little Girl / Pioneer Girl), Tony Turner (The Truck Driver)

Creatives/Company

Author: Peter Flannery (from the screenplay by Nikita Mikhalkocv and Rustam Ibragimbekov)
Producer: National Theatre
Director: Howard Davies
Design: Vicki Mortimer
Lighting: Mark Henderson
Music: Ilona Sekacz
Choreographer: Scarlett Mackmin
Sound: Christopher Shutt