Anna Karenina in Chicago

[Mills Charles]

VITALIST THEATRE presents ...

ANNA KARENINA
Adapted by Helen Edmundson and directed by Elizabeth Carlin Metz.  

Runs September 12, 2005 through October 30, 2005, at Theatre Building 
Chicago, located at 1225 W. Belmont.  For information and reservations, please 
call Theatre Building Chicago box office: (773) 327-5252.

Based on Tolstoy’s majestic novel, Helen Edmundson’s award-winning 
adaptation of ANNA KARENINA is conceptually unique and viscerally 
compelling in its bold intertwining of the central stories of Anna and Levin – life 
stories that encompass Tolstoy’s competing visions of passionate engagement 
and contemplative withdrawal, of betrayal and faith, of desperation and hope. 
First performed in London by Shared Experience, ANNA KARENINA received 
the Time Out Award for Outstanding Theatrical Event. 

As Artistic Director of Vitalist Theatre, Elizabeth Carlin Metz brings to this 
production thirty years of experience (US and UK) in both traditional and 
experimental theatre. Under her direction, Vitalist Theatre, with its distinctive 
fusion of physical theatre, psychological dynamism, and magical-realism, has 
received an impressive array of critical accolades.

King Lear: “Then there are the shows that seem re-felt from start to finish, offered 
up as if there was no precedent for their discoveries. Such revelations are even 
more wonderful when the source is as deceptively familiar as King Lear, happily 
not so familiar when the Vitalist Theatre reinvent[s] the ultimate dysfunctional 
clan” – Performink (Top Ten Chicago Plays, 2004)

The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol: “Inventive 
 a beautifully wrought tale. For 
Metz’s directorial acumen alone, I hope the Vitalists find a well-deserved niche 
in this city’s artistic life” – Chicago Tribune. “Vitalist Theatre has created a work 
of great loveliness, power, and depth 
 as touching and evocative as a Van 
Gogh painting” – Chicago Sun-Times.

Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man: “The best production of any of my plays I 
have ever seen anywhere” – Eve Ensler, Obie Award Winning author of The 
Vagina Monologues.

The Mill on the Floss: “Wildly impassioned and imaginative 
 an ambitious and 
grand production” – Chicago Tribune. “Vitalist Theatre’s [Mill] is enlivened by 
dead-on, impassioned performances, so clear in their depths and shallows you 
can sense the consummate theatricality
 It’s an exciting match, Elizabeth 
Carlin Metz’s kinetic staging and Helen Edmundson’s vibrant adaptation
” – 
Chicago Reader.  “Tremendous artistry and vision.  A thrilling, emotionally 
churning production”– Chicago Sun-Times.

In Addition, VITALIST THEATRE has produced the American premieres of the 
acclaimed British companies Primitive Science and Dialogue Productions.

VITALIST THEATRE’S ANNA KARENINA runs September 12, 2005 through 
October 30, at Theatre Building Chicago, located at 1225 W. Belmont. For 
information and reservations, please call Theatre Building Chicago box office: 
773-327-5252.

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