The trouble with the classics is that they are long, complex and difficult. But today's sensibility favours the quick, simple and easy. So it is no surprise that the National Theatre have opened its doors to Patrick Marber, who has taken Ivan Turgenev's 1850s play, A Month in the Country, and given it a makeover. After all, in its uncut original version it runs for four hours. The result is what the Amazon website ca…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:38PM on July 28, 2015