Home of the Gentry
by Ivan Turgenev
Adapted and directed by Mike Brayndick
Greenhouse Theater Center
August 14th - 31st 2014
When the nobleman Fyodor Lavretsky returns home to his family in Russia, five years after a broken marriage sent him wandering through Europe, he seeks the happiness that eluded him when he was young. Mike Brayndick’s compelling new adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev novel is an elegiac love story with a wry twist of social drama. Can a second chance for love be better than the first? Home of the Gentry will take you back to Oryol on the Oka River where the town melded into the hills, forests, and farmland. Join us in the Kalitin drawing room in the spring of 1842.
Robert Lichtenbert says in his Meaning in Art blog, that Home of the Gentry is "a fine play that holds the audience's attention" with its "wide sweep set in 19th century Russia about... attempts to love... surprising musical numbers with some fine voices...and it has a lively sense of humor for comic relief". Directed "for maximum dramatic impact, Mike Brayndick is to be much commended for... producing this gem. Even the biggest theaters in the world are not offering such a classic during the dog days of summer."
Featuring:
Dan Ochoa, Emma Brayndick, Amber Mandley, Liliana Mitchell, Baird Brutscher, Pete Blatchford, Christopher Donaldson, Katherine Dalin, Jerry Bloom, Casey Brayndick, and Emilie Hanlet.
Robert Lichtenbert says in his Meaning in Art blog, that Home of the Gentry is "a fine play that holds the audience's attention" with its "wide sweep set in 19th century Russia about... attempts to love... surprising musical numbers with some fine voices...and it has a lively sense of humor for comic relief". Directed "for maximum dramatic impact, Mike Brayndick is to be much commended for... producing this gem. Even the biggest theaters in the world are not offering such a classic during the dog days of summer."
Featuring:
Dan Ochoa, Emma Brayndick, Amber Mandley, Liliana Mitchell, Baird Brutscher, Pete Blatchford, Christopher Donaldson, Katherine Dalin, Jerry Bloom, Casey Brayndick, and Emilie Hanlet.