Overview
A week before her thirtieth birthday, Natlya's
life as a dutiful wife and mother is upended as the arrival of her son's
charming new tutor unleashes a whirlwind of suppressed emotions in her
peaceful household. "I set myself quite a complicated psychological task
in this comedy," Turgenev wrote of the play, which would go on to
become one of the permanent works in the Russian dramatic repertory.
This fresh translation of A Month in the Country is a
collaboration between renowned playwright Richard Nelson and the
foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature Richard
Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. It marks the second in TCG's Classic
Russian Drama Series, which plans over the next ten years to publish new
translations of major works of Russian drama.