Anna Karènina

Happy people have no history. In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy tells the story of adulterous love. That of a woman who rushes to Moscow to save her unfaithful brother's marriage and crosses paths with a spirited officer named Vronsky. In defiance of social convention, she abandons husband and child to live out her passion. But by braving the forbidden, Anna breaks her ties with a hypocritical aristocracy and brings about her downfall. After Jane Eyre, Emma Bovary and Mrs Dalloway, Carme Portaceli revisits the tragic destiny of a woman condemned by society to isolation and shame for daring to do what they dare not. On stage, as Anna and the other women in the play stand trial, each tells the story of what happened to her, how she felt, and why one of them chose to take her own life. Through their stories, Carme Portaceli again and again cries out her anger, but retains the hope that there is a place where their happiness might be possible.