nsemble for the Romantic Century

Written by Eve Wolf
Directed by Donald T. Sanders
Set & Costume Design by Vanessa James
Lighting Design by Beverly Emmons
Video Design by David Bengali

Featuring Ellen McLaughlin as Anna, and Jeremy Holm as Isaiah,
with Tommy Schrider, Kate Konigisor, Michael Lewis, and Robert Ian Mackenzie

TBD, violin
Coleman Itzkoff, cello
Zhenni Li, piano

“A dazzling musical and multimedia paean to human aspiration that will send you into the stratosphere. Head immediately to BAM.”

—The New York Times on ERC’s 2015 production of Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon

Set against the sweeping backdrop of twentieth-century Russia and featuring music by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich, Akhmatova: The Heart Is Not Made of Stone tells of the meeting of two cultural giants: the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova and the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin. Tinged with romance and risk, their relationship had repercussions that plunged the two ever deeper into one of the darkest periods in human history.