The Stanislavski Centre and Pushkin House present:
A double-bill
On the Harmfulness of Tobacco (Anton Chekhov)
The Queen of Spades (Alexander Pushkin)
@ Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2AT
Wednesday 29th May, 19.30.
A solo double-bill
On the Harmfulness of Tobacco by Anton Chekhov
and
The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
performed by Philip Lowrie
The distinguished actor Philip Lowrie, plays the hapless and hen-pecked Ivan Ivanovich Nyukhin in Chekhov’s one-act play, in which a man is compelled by his domineering wife to deliver a lecture, at the end of which we have learned far more about him than about the subject of the evils of smoking!
In the second part of this double-bill, Philip Lowrie gives a dramatic reading of Pushkin’s haunting short story, first published in 1834, and later the subject of an opera by Tchaikovsky.
In the course of his long career as an actor Philip Lowrie has worked in all sections of the profession. He has appeared several times in the theatre in London, in roles ranging from Horatio in Hamlet to Major Metcalf in The Mousetrap. He has played with most of the major repertory companies and made hundreds of television and radio broadcasts. He is currently appearing as Dennis Tanner in Coronation Street, a role he created in the very first episode and to which he
returned two years ago. He has given many readings of contemporary and classical poetry, his solo performance of Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner being much admired. Philip is very proud of his involvement in the charity The Actors’ Benevolent Fund of which he is a Vice - President.
Tickets £10.00/£7.00 concessions
Book online at - http://www.pushkinhouse.org/single-event/events/on-the-harmfulness-of-tobacco-and-the-queen-of-spades
