By Maxim Gorky. A group of middle-class
Russian holiday-makers spend the summer in a forest complex of dachas. Affairs, intrigue and amateurdramatics help to pass the time but eventually they must confront the hollowness of their lives. Written in 1904 as a response to Chekhov's Cherry Orchard this adaptation by Nick Dear was first performed at the Royal National Theatre.
Producer Alison Hindell (R)