The Theatre: The Russians (Playhouse)
... By Horace Horsnell The Russians (Playhouse) A HUNDRED years separate the writing of that lovely play, A Month in the Country, from that of this heroic contemporary melodrama; and though they are both Russian, they have as little in common as peace and war. For whereas Turgenev approaches his theme romantically, and handles it as a poet, Konstantin Simonov, author of The Russians, writes as a ...