Old Vic, LondonA scathing portrait by Turgenev of the cruelties of Russian rural life finally gets a slap-up London productionWe've long thought of Ivan Turgenev as a one-play man who, in A Month in the Country, anticipated the delicate ironies of Chekhov. But Mike Poulton has adapted this neglected piece from 1848 and, after earlier showings in Chichester (1996) and New York (2002), it finally gets a slap-up London …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM on December 17, 2013