Vassa
Written by Maxim Gorky In a version by Mike Bartlett
Directed by Anna Barkan
The Carne Studio Theatre
Tuesday 9 – Tuesday 16 June 2026
This is an amateur production presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.
Content warnings: Contains themes of assault, child loss, murder, death, mental illness due to guilt and suicide. Explicit language used throughout. Contains depictions of rape.
Creative Team
Director
Designer
Producer
Assistant Producer
Fight Director
Movement & Intimacy Director
Musical Director
Voice Director
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Assistant Director
Anna Barkan*
Erin C. Guan*
Rebecca Lyle*
Bobby Harding*
Joe Reed*
Adi Gortler*
James Michalos*
Bee Menabney*
Simon Calahan
Phoebe Bennett
Yanlin Zhang
Production Team
Production Manager
Stage Manager
Deputy Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Managers
Production Lx Programmer
Production Sound Engineer
Dep PSE
Sound Assistants
Lighting Technicians
Bastie Colclough
Arthur Moore
Jay Domeracki-Walsh
Max Goodwin
Sara Salanki
Abigail Quelch
Nic Usher
Finley Cozens
Inaaya Abdullah
Josh Short
Gray Wills
Sonny Hooper
Tilly Riley
Will Smith
Costume Supervisor
Mark Jones*
*LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Mikhailo Vasiliev
Prokhor Zheleznov
Lyudmila
Dunyechka
Lipa
Pavel Anna
Vassa Petrovna Zheleznova
Natalya
Semyon
Maximillian Benton
Timur Fraser
Yasmine Hamady
Alecoe Haughey
Katie Hutchings
Taran Jones
Ellie-Rose Mackinlay
Kathleen McAuley Irvine
Janita Mikkola
William Walford
*LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
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