A Month in the Country
A comedy in five acts by Ivan Turgenev. It was written in France between 1848 and 1850 and was first published in 1855. The play was not staged until 1872, when it was given as a benefit performance for the Moscow actress E N Vasilyeva, who was keen to play the leading role of Natalya Petrovna.
South African productions include:
In 1969 a PACT production, presented in the Emlyn Williams version, directed by Leonard Schach, with Kerry Jordan, Siegfried Mynhardt, John Hayter, Erica Rogers, Frank Douglass and Vivienne Drummond. Designs by Graham Brown.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Month_in_the_Country_(play)
(Source: Teater SA, 1(4), 1969).
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