Uncle Vanya Three Sisters
Feeding an increasing appetite for international theatre in London and a growing number of foreign language productions in the West End, internationally renowned film/theatre director, producer and screenwriter Andrei Konchalovsky transfers his productions of UNCLE VANYA and THREE SISTERS from Moscow’s Mossovet State Academic Theatre for a short season in London.
Andrei Konchalovsky is a renowned theatre and film director as well as a screenwriter. His film credits include IN THE DARK, THE LION IN WINTER (Golden Globe nomination 2005), HOUSE OF FOOLS (Grand Special Prize, Venice International Film Festival 2002), THE INNER CIRCLE, TANGO AND CASH, DUET FOR ONE, RUNAWAY TRAIN and UNCLE VANYA.
In 1980 he was named People’s Artist of Russia and later he was awarded the Order of 4th Degree for Services to the Homeland in 1997; In 2002 Andrei was made a member of the National Academy for Cinematographic Arts and Science and an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France in 2005.
Mossovet State Theatre is one of the oldest theatres in Moscow having been founded in 1923. In the 1970s well-known Russian director Pavel Khomsky became first the principal director, and then the artistic director of the theatre. Mossovet has been enthusiastically received in many countries: France, USA, Finland, Israel, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria and across the world.