A Month in the Country

by Ivan Turgenev, Richard Nelson (Translator), Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)

Overview

A fresh interpretation of Turgenev’s comedy about the calamitous effects of love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781559367813
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	01/12/2015
Series:	TCG Classic Russian Drama Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	231 KB

About the Author

Richard Nelson's many plays include Rodney's Wife, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Drama Desk–nominated Franny's Way and Some Americans Abroad, Tony Award–nominated Two Shakespearean Actors, and James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced acclaimed translations of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the 1991 and 2002 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prizes. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married to each other and live in Paris.

Editorial Reviews

This adaptation's language, tone, personalities, and even themes are clearly Friel's...sharp...funny...a unique sound and compelling depth. Turgenev's classic is energized, more entertaining, fresher.

TheaterWeek

A MASTERLY TRIUMPH...sensitive...superlative...impeccable...

Irish Independent

...a marvelously rich evening of theatre...

Irish Times

...his lines have the rueful wit of a man who has seen much of the world and who shakes his head compassionately over how rarely any of its inhabitants achieve a finish worthy of their beginnings.

New Yorker

What a remarkable play!...It has all the freshness, that thrust of a new century's thought, which we associate with Chekhov or Gorky.

NY Post

A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY is a jewel of a play...

NY Times