The Oyster Problem review " the struggle to save Flaubert from himself by Miriam Gillinson

Jermyn Street Theatre, LondonIn historian Orlando Figes' rather too formal first play, the passionate romantic's friends try to persuade him to be a little more worldly While researching his book, The Europeans, Orlando Figes fell for the famous writers that populated his expansive work on 19th-century Europe. Turgenev was at the heart of The Europeans, but Flaubert is the focus of Figes' very first play. With the g…

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