Nothing Sacred is a play by Canadian playwright George F. Walker, written as a stage adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's 1862 novel Fathers and Sons.
[1] The play received its first production at Toronto, Ontario's CentreStage, in January 1988 [2] under the direction of Bill Glassco.
[3] The original cast included Michael Riley as Arkady, Robert Bockstael as Bazarov, David Fox as Nikolai, Richard Monette as Pavel, Peter Blais as Viktor, Diane D'Aquila as Anna and Beverley Cooper as Fedosya.
[7] It had garnered nine Dora nominations overall, including acting nods for Riley, D'Aquila and Blais.
[9] It was also one of Walker's most widely produced plays in the United States,[10] with productions in Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. in the 1988-89 season alone.