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Monday, April 29, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
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| This is the only screengrab I could find, and to be honest it doesn't look much like what I saw. But I'll trust the Pleasance Theatre's website on this. |
People say there’s two types of Russian plays. The first is a bunch of exploited proletariat living cheek by jowl in a doss-house, the second is a bunch of miserable snobs in a country estate picking over their emotional baggage. Maxim Gorky’s Summerfolk is very much the latter, fitting right into the template of productions of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and The Seagull. As far as I can see, the recipe calls for a generally depressed middle-aged academic type living unhappily on a country estate, surrounded by by friends that occupy various parts of the political spectrum, a beautiful and unhappy wife, a younger woman (probably also depressed) and maybe some servants that add a wry bit of class commentary. Naturally in the third act someone will go berserk and start waving a gun around.
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