B < > Baal Babies Grow Old Back to Methuselah Bad Weather George Baker Sean Baker The Balcony Bandits Teresa Banham Barbarians Frances Barber The Barbican Howard Barker Peter Barnes Desmond Barrit Bartholomew Fair John Barton Linda Bassett Bastard Angel Alan Bates Simon Russell Beale Sean Bean The Beast Maureen Beattie Francis Beaumont Beauty and the Beast The Beaux' Stratagem Becket Samuel Beckett Beckett Shorts The Beggar's Opera Brendan Behan Katy Behean Aphra Behn Belcher's Luck Believe What You Will Christopher Benjamin Paul Bentall John Berger Sarah Berger Cicely Berry Suzanne Bertish Kirsty Besterman Paul Bettany The Bewitched Bingo Birdsong The Birthday Party The Bite of the Night Colin Blakely Claudie Blakley Marjorie Bland Brian Blessed The Blue Angel The Body Michael Bogdanov Robert Bolt Edward Bond Samantha Bond Ken Bones Hugh Bonneville Laurence Boswell John Bott Dion Boucicault John Bowe Raymond Bowers Robert Bowman Stephen Boxer Michael Boyd Danny Boyle David Bradley John Bradley Cathryn Bradshaw Kenneth Branagh Brand Breaking the Silence Bertolt Brecht Howard Brenton David Brierley The Bright and Bold Design Stephen Brimson Lewis Jasper Britton Brixton Stories Jim Broadbent The Broken Heart Richard Brome Peter Brook Siân Brooke Brooklyn Academy of Music Bille Brown Susan Brown Brenda Bruce Emily Bruni Giordano Bruno Robert Bryan Georg Büchner Mikhail Afanaseyev Bulgakov Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Bundle Anthony Burgess Alfred Burke Alan Burrett John Bury Judy Buxton Patsy Byrne Lord Byron		Breaking the Silence Play by Stephen Poliakoff, one of the finest premiered by the RSC during the 1980s. An aristocrat's inability to adapt in post-Revolution Russia, the survival in his nature of arrogance and autocracy, is explored with humour but sympathy. Forced by the Communists to take the post of surveyor of telephones and to live in a railway carriage Nikolai Pesiakoff nevertheless carries on as before, holding dinner parties (on the train) and treating his wife, Eugenia, as a chattel. Eugenia, adaptable and resourceful, grows in strength as her husband retreats into self-delusion; supported by their young maidservant she takes charge of his work and prevents disaster. The period is beautifully imagined, the central characters lovingly but truthfully observed. They are, in fact, portraits of Poliakoff's grandparents. Daniel Massey, Gemma Jones and Juliet Stevenson (as the maid) gave exceptional performances. Following its run in the Pit Breaking the Silence transferred to the Mermaid, but without Massey (who had left the RSC) or Juliet Stevenson (who had returned to Stratford to play Rosalind and Cressida). Alan Howard and Jenny Agutter replaced them.	1984-85 Pit/1985 Mermaid: Ron Daniels Alison Chitty (design); Gerry Jenkinson (lighting) Daniel Massey/Alan Howard (Nikolai Pesiakoff), Gemma Jones (Eugenia Pesiakoff), Juliet Stevenson/Jenny Agutter (Polya), John Kane (Alexei Verkoff), Jason Lake/Edward Rawle Hicks (Master Alexander), Richard Garnett (Guard), Campbell Morrison (Guard)
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