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About the Show

Gorky's riveting play about a matriarch who attempts to save the family's dynasty from decline.

A new production of Maxim Gorky's 1910 play about a wealthy family riddled with problems as the family business experiences a decline. Adapted by Olivier Award winner, Mike Bartlett (Albion, King Charles III, Doctor Foster). Siobhán Redmond (Top Girls) stars in the title role as the tyrannical mother, Vassa. Directed by Tinuke Craig (The Color Purple).

Critic Reviews (10)

A rare misfire from north london's creative powerhouse.
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The capable actors are directed, it seems, to extremes of caricature and over-acting...the year's most disappointing show so far.
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Siobhan Redmond is impressive as a tyrannical mother trying to rescue her debt-ridden family in Tinuke Craig’s strangely rootless production
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You have a sense of everyone working very hard to make something fly. Vassa remains resolutely earthbound, not quite funny enough or black enough to make its mark.
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Gorky play suffers an identity crisis in uneasily-pitched revival.
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I have seen shows worse than Vassa, but I have seen few productions with a less sure sense of what they are.
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Siobhan Redmond shines in this disgracefully funny adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s 1910 play...The whole evening yammers with talent.
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It feels like this is a production at odds with its text...There’s a palpable imbalance to things. Sometimes the actors deadpan and sometimes they ramp up their grotesquery, but there’s never a clear reason why they’re doing either.
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