A Month in the Country

by Ivan Turgenev, Nelson Pevear & Volokhonsky

Overview

Ivan Turgenev's beautiful and subtle comedy of love in a new translation by the renowned translators, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-Of-The-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director, Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award).

"I want...I want...I want you to want."

ACT ONE

"We keep studying ourselves and then imagine we know other people."

ACT ONE

"The lacework of the psychology of love which Turgenev weaves in such masterly fashion...into the peculiar design of the emotions of loving, suffering, jealous, male and female hearts."

Constantin Stanislavski, My Life in Art

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780881458374
Publisher:	Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.
Publication date:	06/22/2021
Pages:	148
Sales rank:	453,679
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.32(d)

About the Author

Richard Nelson's many plays include The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry and Regular Singing); Nikolai and the Others; Goodnight Children Everywhere (Olivier Award for Best Play); Franny's Way; Some Americans Abroad; Frank's Home; Two Shakespearean Actors and James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey; Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical).

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated the works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Boris Pasternak and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamozov and Anna Karenina won the PEN Translation Prize in 1991 and 2002, respectively. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married and live in France.

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