Crucible, SheffieldBrian Friel's audacious, Chekhovian epilogue is short, masterful and hilariousA middle-aged man and woman have a chance encounter in a slightly down-at-heel Moscow tea-room sometime in the 1920s. As they fall into conversation, the contours of their lives are revealed. She has been left with the care of a large, loss-making estate once managed by Vanya, her beloved but ineffectual uncle. He is the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:10AM on February 20, 2014