A Month in the Country

Hundreds of women would envy me, wouldn’t they?

A beautiful house in the Russian countryside.

A doting husband, a circle of admirers.

A life of order, tranquility and quiet restraint.

It’s enough to make you scream.

Natalya Petrovna looks to all the world like a contented woman, but the arrival of a penniless young tutor stirs a restless heart, igniting a spark of desire that sets the Summer ablaze.

A Month in the Country pits passion against propriety, as a cast of characters struggle to reconcile the lives they lead with the happiness they crave. Lyndsey Turner directs Thomas Arnold, Jessica Brindle,Susan Brown, Rachelle Diedericks, Patrick Gibson, Mark Hadfield, Michael Hodgson, Jonathan Livingstone, Sophie Okonedo, Alistair Petrie, Daniel Rigby and Amanda Wilkin in Brian Friel’s reworking of Turgenev’s most famous play.