Praise for Anna Karenina presented by Tristan’s company “The Piano Removal
Company” at The Arcola Theatre: March/April 2011
“Helen Edmundson’s version…with its imagined conversations between Anna and
Levin, beautifully captures how their stories speak to each other…Tristan Pate is a
likeably bewildered Levin…” – The Sunday Times
“There's lovely ensemble work from the eight-strong cast … and Webster certainly
has a knack for eye-catching tableaux” - Evening Standard
“This was one of the most energetic, fluid, expertly choreographed pieces of theatre
we have ever seen” - Itchy London
“We’ll see much more of many of them in the future. You saw them here first” -
Carole Woddis, Reviews Gate
“Max Webster’s production is elegantly executed, the cast hopping nimbly between
roles and scenes” - Natasha Tripney, The Stage
“This is not only a play, but a form of theatrical performance art that, although
recited in English, oozes of Russianness. Indeed, this performance could have come
right off the stage at Taganka Theatre” - Jeffrey Andreoni,
The Hackney Citizen
“Performance-wise, there was great enthusiasm from all, Tristan Pate’s Levin
standing out ***” - Ian Foster, The Public Reviews
“The rock and roll reincarnation currently at Arcola, directed by Max Webster
and adapted by Helen Edmundson, is instantly exciting. There are some tender
performances from the likes of Tristan Pate as Anna’s co-protagonist Levin” - Jasmine
Coleman, The Hackney Gazette
“Tristan Pate was a solid, well-grounded Levin, entirely convincing in his desire for
normality, and his flirting with suicide, which he knows to be stupid” - Mark Ronan
“Tristan Pate as Levin gives us as much hesitation, doubt and contradictive stern
moral fibre as a Russian man longing for love could want, while allowing us to see
the internal struggles of his character and his descent from idealism to practical
imperfect resolution” - Eric Page, G Scene.