War & Peace

Originally staged at the National Theatre in 1996, Shared Experience revives its thrilling production of one of the world’s greatest novels, War & Peace.

Tolstoy’s panoramic masterpiece presents a huge cast of characters, both historical and fictional, peasant and aristocratic, whose lives are set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. For these families, confronting love and marriage, loss and defeat, life will never be the same again.