National Theatre at Home: Summerfolk (2026)
A summer of pleasure. A storm on the horizon.
2026 · 2h 29m · Drama
Genres: Drama
It's a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russia's elite retreat to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. When they're having this much fun, why care about anything else? But Varvara just can't shake the feeling that their holiday idyll is built on borrowed time.
Director: Robert Hastie
Music by: Nicola T. Chang
Cast
Rebecca Banatvala as Sasha/Understudy Varvara BassovaTomas Barrett as Maxim Zimin/Understudy VlassTamika Bennett as SonyaPip Carter as Pavel Sergeyich RyuminPeter Forbes as Semyon Semyonich DvoyetochiyeBrandon Grace as Nikolai Petrovich ZamislovArthur Hughes as Pyotr Ivanich SuslovIvan Ivashkin as Ensemble/Understudy Pavel Ryumin/Understudy Kropilkin/Understudy PustobaikaSam Jenkins-Shaw as Kropilkin/Understudy Pyotr Suslov/Understudy Sergei BassovGwyneth Keyworth as Olga AlekseyevnaDaniel Lapaine as Yakov Petrovich ShalimovAlex Lawther as Vlass MikhailichMore like this
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