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| | A Month in the Country |
 | | Russian play, A Month in the Country, is charming, and much of this production is fine, but it really should be called "A Month in the Theatre." (I tried to resist, but I just couldn't.) Boyohboyohboy is it slow and static. |
 | | Turgenev is usually regarded as a precursor to Chekhov, with the same huge country estates, the elegant and the provincial guests (the requisite doctor, the young innocent, the mismatched lovers, the clumsy landowner, the prim governness) and the same languid walks and talks. |
 | | The situation in A Month in the Country is this: the central figure is a pretty, rich, self-absorbed matron (Jessica Hendra) who falls in love with her son's young and robust tutor (Jeffrey Coon) who is loved by a sweet young girl (Jennifer Childs) who is an orphaned ward of the household. |
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