Hampstead, LondonFifty years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the earth. But Rona Munro, in this epic play for the RSC, has shrewdly chosen to focus on the little-known figure of Sergei Korolyov: the rocket designer and truculent visionary responsible for the Soviet space programme. What Munro gives us is not just a tribute to an unsung hero but a fascinating study of Korolyov's growing conflict with t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM on April 21, 2011