At one point in The Promise, Lika " the female protagonist and dramatic centre of Aleksei Arbuzov's 1965 three-hander " sighs that she is not as heroic as she looks on paper. The play, in the same fashion, falls short of its paper credentials. A colossal success in the USSR, The Promise was first seen [...]
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:28PM on November 20, 2012