Publisher Description
The dreary aspects of Soviet housing and one family's attempt to "exchange" its tiny Moscow apartment for a larger one. Adapted from a novella by the respected Russian writer Yuri Trifanov, as translated by playwright Michael Frayn.
An LA Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Ian Abercrombie as Viktor's Father, Rosalind Ayres as Lena, Sharon Bamber as Aunt Ahenya, Joyce Blair as Viktor's Mother, Barbara Bosson as Lora, Peter A. Jacobs as Kalugin and Felix, Martin Jarvis as Viktor, Zosukuma Kunene as Alik, Anna Sophie Loewenberg as Natashka, Vonetta McGee as Tanya, Marian Mercer as Lena's Mother, Robin Nordli as Factory Director and Funeral Orator, William Palmieri as Snitkin and others, John Randolph as Viktor's Grandfather, Melissa Smigley as Marina and Girl Next Door, and Malachi Throne as Lena's Father. Directed by Robert Robinson and recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, CA, in April 1992
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About the Narrators
Martin Jarvis, OBE, has recorded more than 150 Just William stories for the BBC. These have become international
audio bestsellers. He won the Theatre World Award for his starring role on
Broadway in By Jeeves; his West End
appearances include works by Ayckbourn, Frayn, Pinter, and Wilde. Screen
successes include everything from Stargate
Atlantis, Doctor Who, and Numb3rs to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the Oscar-winning Titanic.
Rosalind Ayres is a leading English actress whose many movies include the Oscar-winning Gods and Monsters and Titanic. Her audio performances have won awards in both Britain and the United States, including AudioFile Earphones Awards.
Rosalind Ayres is a leading English actress whose many movies include the Oscar-winning Gods and Monsters and Titanic. Her audio performances have won awards in both Britain and the United States, including AudioFile Earphones Awards.
Shannon Cochran is an actress and director, whose work includes the First National Tour of the Pulitzer Prize–winning play August: Osage County, a film opposite Kathleen Turner called The Perfect Family, and Last Days, a radio play for the BBC. She has performed and directed with LA Theatre Works, an organization producing radio plays for NPR, for fifteen years.