A Month in the Country review – delicate, tragicomic tangle of desire and disappointment
Donmar Warehouse, LondonBrian Friel’s version of Turgenev treads lightly between humour and hurt as wayward passions rock a country houseA bored hausfrau languishing in her marriage. A confidante who secretly loves her. A charge that falls for the handsome new tutor and an assortment of ancillary characters mirroring the cross-crossing drama of suddenly flaring passions and unrequited love. Add a drawing room in a …