"There’s navel-gazing aplenty, with constant talk of actors and writers. But that’s also the point. McKintosh’s set stretches summer into long, carefree days, with water to paddle in and an expanse of green to roam."
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“This is a pure pleasure in terms of the acting and the staging.”
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"At almost three hours, it is ambling but with sparks of intensity – rather like a summer’s day."
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"Summerfolk is a fine play but it’s the moments where this production feels less like Chekhov – when it’s broader or angrier – that it really distinguishes itself. "
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“So this is a generational production, really, and whatever its flaws are, they shouldn’t put you off seeing the sort of luxury revival that the NT was made for.”
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“Now, on the same stage, Robert Hastie presents this valuable curiosity, laced with a timely sense of collective dread, in terrific, painterly, ensemble style.”
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"Gorky is painting a picture of a careless society, bound to be destroyed. His play speaks just as loudly to our careless times, even if it does so at considerable, sprawling length."
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"It is a sprawling, deliberately slow-moving piece, with director Robert Hastie taking time to gradually build an atmosphere of suffocating, inescapable ennui."
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