Russian Spring: The Yalta Game & The Bear

Season: 4 May to 28 May

Tickets Available From: 06-Apr-2011

Written by: Brian Friel
by special arrangement with The Agency London

Directed by: Nanette Frew

This double bill of two short plays, written by Ireland's greatest living playwright Brian Friel, is based on a story and a one-act play by Anton Chekhov. In The Yalta Game, an innocent game at the famous Black Sea resort turns into a passionate affair for a Moscow bank clerk and a young married woman. In The Bear a man-hating widow and a woman-hating creditor square off over one of her deceased husband's debts. Both plays explore the love that affirms life in the face of convention and routine, the mundane and the commonplace.

A delightfully intriguing double-bill from Russia with love.