Black Bread and Cucumber
5 –23 October
Celebrating Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday, Caroline Blakiston performs her play at the Jermyn Street Theatre.
Black Bread and Cucumber is Caroline Blakiston's acclaimed one-woman show about how she made history as the first British actress to play Chekhov in Russia, in Russian! Black Bread and Cucumber was written during 1992-3, following Caroline Blakiston’s unique experience playing Charlotta in The Cherry Orchard in Russia. She is the first English actress to play Chekhov in Russia in Russian. Her first performance was in 1991 at the Dramatichesky theatr in Taganrog- the town on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia where Anton Chekhov was born. In December 1994, she won the Golden Globe Award which is presented at Moscow each year to a foreign person who has made a special contribution to the Russian theatre. The text of Black Bread and Cucumber was published in Dramaturg, the Russian literary journal, in 1995, translated into Russian by Henrietta Dobryakova.
Tuesday to Saturday 7.30pm Sat/Sun Matinees 3.30pm
Tickets: £18.00 £14.00 concessions
Call the Jermyn Street Box Office to book on 020 7287 2875 or see www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk