SUMMERFOLK

Written by Maxim Gorky

Translated/ Directed by Joseph Blatchley

This is a play of "false hopes and unfulflled promises." Recreating the life of the early Russian bourgeois social class, we used real grass and an authentic samova to create the detailed and fractious world that these characters experience. Our version had an underlying modern energy; with a predominately female company we switched roles originally written for men to female identifying actors, giving a feminist outlook on the production without sacrifcing the original intentions of Gorky’s play.