Anna Karenina

I think... I think there are as many different kinds of love as there are different hearts.

Anna is the envy of St. Petersburg society. Glamorous and admired, but locked in a loveless marriage, her sudden and passionate love affair with Count Vronsky turns her world on its head and puts at risk everything she has ever known.

In a parallel story, spurned by the woman he loves, Levin turns his back on wealthy society and heads for his country estate, determined to refashion it into a vision of a fairer world. Tolstoy's masterpiece casts these two stories about our purpose in the world against the epic backdrop of Imperial Russia.

Olivier-nominated director Ellen McDougall makes her Royal Exchange debut with this stripped-back and contemporary version of one of the greatest novels ever written.