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This year, the 50-year-old is all over his hometown, with his fierce 1997 relationship drama Closer revived at the Donmar, a new play and an adaptation of Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country due at the National Theatre in the summer, and a film script that is currently under wraps but promises to be more ......
London Evening Standard 2015-03-05You're never too old for a great book. We've put together a list of our 16 favorite stories on growing up and what it means to be a man. They cover everything from how to live to how to be a leader to how people should handle crises. Check them out. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig, from $1.53 ... Siddhartha's life is the classic tale of self-discovery ... "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev, $8.40 paperback....
Seattle Post 2015-02-24From Homer to Balzac to Darwin to Dickens, these Penguin 80th birthday booklets are where publishing meets public service. Encouraging impulsiveness … Penguin's Little Black Classics. Nicholas Lezard. Tuesday 24 February 2015 12.17 GMT Last modified on Tuesday 24 February 2015 12.21 GMT ... Each is around 60 pages long; each is an extract from the Penguin Classics range ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... 10 ... 11 ... Ivan Turgenev Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands ... ....
The Guardian 2015-02-24Off-Broadway plays can get really weird ... Classic Stage Company's revival of "A Month in the Country" is what would happen if Ivan Turgenev's five-act play were translated into SparkNotes and then optioned as a Netflix Original Series ... As a whole, the show is fast-paced and absurd in a way that works for the modern audience, though might make a Turgenev scholar consider standing up and peeing on the floor in the way of Crazy Eyes ... ....
Huffington Post 2015-02-13A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY ** 1/2 out of ****. CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY. Chekhovian before Chekhovian was cool (or even existed, actually) Ivan Turgenev's play A Month In The Country is new to me, but familiar in the best possible way. Seeing Russian aristocrats bored in the country feels as natural as seeing some locals in New Orleans getting drunk or workers in New York getting unionized ... It passes the time ... Natalya takes more action ... Note ... ....
Huffington Post 2015-02-04A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY ** 1/2 out of ****. CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY. Chekhovian before Chekhovian was cool (or even existed, actually) Ivan Turgenev's play A Month In The Country is new to me, but familiar in the best possible way. Seeing Russian aristocrats bored in the country feels as natural as seeing some locals in New Orleans getting drunk or workers in New York getting unionized ... It passes the time ... Natalya takes more action ... Note ... ....
Huffington Post 2015-02-03Now two other terrific actors -- Taylor Schilling ("Orange is the New Black") and Peter Dinklage ("Game of Thrones") -- have gravitated from Netflix and cable in a revival of Ivan Turgenev's tragic-comedy "A Month in the Country." ... Schmidt (Dinklage's real-life wife) encourages actors to turn Turgenev's internal monologues into conversations with the ......
Newsday 2015-01-30Ivan Turgenev Director ... Taylor Schilling, Peter Dinklage and Anthony Edwards star in this Off-Broadway revival of Ivan Turgenev's classic 19th century play ... Off-Broadway revival of Ivan Turgenev's 19th century classic A Month in the Country....
The Hollywood Reporter 2015-01-30Chekov, like Flaubert, was a fan of Ivan Turgenev, a 19th-century Russian writer whose short stories about the feudal system first put him on the literary map ... However, Natalya fears her teenage ward Vera (a wonderful Megan West) is also taken with the him -- and as Turgenev makes clear, the repercussions of desire are unforeseen and often destructive ... Dr ... Such studies in class distinctions were Turgenev's strong suit ... Photo....
Huffington Post 2015-01-30It’s said that Chekhov was always trying to get the Moscow Art Theater to produce Ivan Turgenev’s neglected classic A Month in the Country instead of his own new plays....
IMDb 2015-01-30In Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country, Taylor Schilling, star of Orange Is the New Black, wears a yellow gown, a blue gown and one made of flowing ivory satin. There’s not a carrot-colored jumpsuit in the mix ... A Month in the Country, published in 1855, though not performed uncensored until well after that, is a sort of pastoral romance ... Turgenev does neither ... Turgenev’s characters talk an awful lot, often to the point ... ....
The Guardian 2015-01-30The Classic Stage Company has put together pretty much the right director and actors, and its revival of Ivan Turgenev’s classic, which opened Thursday at the CSC stage, feels like a captivating, if not overly sprite, two hours in the Russian countryside ... Turgenev’s characters are nothing if not emotionally controlled, which may be why he felt compelled to give them soliloquies....
The Wrap 2015-01-303 / 5 stars. The star of Orange is the New Black proves that she’s a real theatre actor, but for all the fine performances, this is a tepid revival of a second-rate play. Chekov lite ... Photograph ... In Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country, Taylor Schilling, star of Orange Is the New Black, wears a yellow gown, a blue gown and one made of flowing ivory satin ... Turgenev does neither ... Turgenev’s characters talk an awful lot, often to the point....
The Guardian 2015-01-30Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Russian: Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев; IPA: [ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲeɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf]; November 9 [O.S. October 28] 1818 – September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.
Turgenev was born into a wealthy landed family of the Russian aristocracy in Oryol, Russia, on November 9, 1818 (October 28 OS). His father, Sergei Nikolaevich Turgenev, a colonel in the Imperial Russian cavalry, was a chronic philanderer. Ivan's mother, Varvara Petrovna Lutovinova, was a wealthy heiress, who had had an unhappy childhood and suffered in her marriage. Ivan's father died when Ivan was sixteen, leaving him and his brother Nicholas to be brought up by their abusive mother. Ivan's childhood was a lonely one, in constant fear of his mother who beat him often. After the standard schooling for a son of a gentleman, Turgenev studied for one year at the University of Moscow and then moved to the University of Saint Petersburg from 1834 to 1837, focusing on Classics, Russian literature, and philology. He then studied, from 1838 until 1841, at the University of Berlin to study philosophy, particularly Hegel, and history. He returned to Saint Petersburg to complete his master's exam. Turgenev was impressed with German society and returned home believing that Russia could best improve itself by incorporating ideas from the Age of Enlightenment. Like many of his educated contemporaries, he was particularly opposed to serfdom. In 1841, Turgenev started his career in Russian civil service and spent two years working for the Ministry of Interior (1843-1845).