Summerfolk

It’s a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russia’s elite retreat to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. When they’re having this much fun, why care about anything else?

 But Varvara just can’t shake the feeling that their holiday idyll is built on borrowed time. As the party continues, how long can they ignore the storm on the horizon?

Director Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge) brings Gorky’s eternally relevant examination of the bourgeoisie to the National Theatre’s biggest stage, the Olivier, in a new adaptation created by Nina Raine (Consent) and Moses Raine (Donkey Heart).