A Month in the Country

by Ivan Turgenev - adapted into English by Emlyn Williams
directed by Mark Turnbull

This play contains both comedy and pathos as it deals with the acute absurdity of romantic love.  Natalya Petrovna is adored and loved by her husband Islaev whilst also providing a secret and unfulfilled romantic focus for his best friend and Natalya's confidante, Rakitin.  This love triangle is further complicated by her falling in love with her son's younger tutor Belyaev, and she competes for his affections with her young attractive ward, Verochka.

This version by Emlyn Williams was presented with Michael Redgrave and Valerie Taylor at the St James Theatre in 1943, and directed by Williams himself.  It is a fine example of his sublime dialogue which brings an immediacy and period style to this wonderful play and reminds us of the gifts of  a consummate man of the British theatre.

 

Saturday 23rd to Saturday 30th October 2010
Evenings at 7.45p.m., except for Sunday at 4p.m.
There is also a matinee on 30th October at 3p.m. &bull: There is no performance on the Wednesday.

Other past productions

1. Taking Sides - Ronald Harwood
2. Aladdin - John Crocker - Music & Lyrics by Eric Gilder
3. Little Gem - Elaine Murphy
4. Vita & Virginia - Eileen Atkins
   adapted from correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
5. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
6. Tom Paine - Paul Foster
7. Youth Theatre Double Bill - Will Averill: Cinderella: Or How Pipsqueak the Mouse Became a Stallion. 'Crinkley Bottom............' was devised in-house
8. Gormenghast - John Constable adapted from the novel by Mervyn Peake
9. This Story of Yours - John Hopkins
10. King John - William Shakespeare
11. Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
12. Fallen Angels - Noel Coward
13. Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
14. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
15. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
16. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
17. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
18. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
19. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
20. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
21. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
22. Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
23. Iron - Rona Munro
24. Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn
25. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
26. I Hate Shakespeare - Steph DeFerie
27. Moonlight and Magnolias - Ron Hutchinson
28. Lulu - Frank Wedekind, in a version by Peter Barnes
29. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
30. Whipping It Up - Steve Thompson
31. Harvey - Mary Chase
32. Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
33. Days of Wine and Roses - Owen McCafferty
34. Henry V - William Shakespeare
35. Arabian Nights - adapted by Dominic Cooke
36. Vincent in Brixton - Nicholas Wright
37. The Real Thing - Tom Stoppard
38. Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
39. An Inspector Calls - J. B. Priestley

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