Lyttelton, LondonMaxim Gorky takes up where Anton Chekhov leaves off. Written in 1905, shortly after what would become known as Bloody Sunday, when peaceful protesters were shot down by the tsar's troops, this rarely seen play offers a tragicomic picture of a self-absorbed intelligentsia. Although the work is no masterpiece, Howard Davies's production and Andrew Upton's new translation prove it's a fascinat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AM on April 17, 2013