I am really enjoying working with the Lace Market Theatre on their production of Anna Karenina which is showing in April. The part of Levin is a wonderfully stretching and complex part as he goes through so many mood swings in the play and is a really well rounded difident character. I get turned down by the lovely sweet Kitty, a much younger woman I attempt to propose to; then in deep rejection go and sulk for months: the peasants who work my land are a pain in the bum: the lazy bailif even worse. My counterpart in the play (Anna Karenina) goes completely against my character's moral code by befriending the handsome and utterly charming Count Vronsky - alright she becomes his red hot lover and she is married with a child! On top of this people keep getting run over by steam trains, a race horse called Frou Frou falls over on stage and has to be shot (no real race horses are hurt in the acting )and I have over 60 pages of lines to learn, have to stick my head in a bucket of freezing cold water and then have to sing in Russian! However, I get to marry Kitty in the end, not without a few domestics en route as well as go through a religious transformation. All in an evenings work for no pay and hopefully a lot of fun and wild applause.