Very quick & short off-the-cuff review. Patrick Marber’s adaptation of Turgenev’s play (directed by Marber himself) is slick, smooth, professional, superficial, and extremely English. A cool set, made up of suspended perspex walls and a huge reproduction of a Romantic landscape painting, cluttered with pretty 19th-century furniture, with rustic chairs for the entire cast upstage [...]
SOURCE: www.dispositio.net at 09:27AM on October 21, 2015