Review: Silent Planet, Finborough Theatre
A psychiatric prison in the USSR, 1978. We’re on an island and see dissident author Gavriil (Graeme McKnight), a Ukrainian convict, in the interrogation room with Doctor Yurchak (Matthew Thomas). Yurchak has little patience with his subject until he discovers Gavriil’s talent for storytelling; dissident stories, that is, from the prisoners’ library (where guards cannot... Read more → The pos…