Marber Reinvents Turgenev
✮✮✮✮ Patrick Marber's Three Days in the Country after Turgenev National Theatre | London directed by Patrick Marber Patrick Marber's condensed version of Turgenev's long-winded, novelistic A Month in the Country begins slowly, excruciatingly slowly, like most classic Russian plays. After about half an hour it suddenly fizzes into life, its intriguing mix of tragicomic plot, sub-plot, counter-plot (and counter-counter plot) gripping the audience's attention until the curtain c
