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Summerfolk
A summer of pleasure. A storm on the horizon.
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?
Nina Raine and Moses Raine's new adaptation of Maxim Gorky's razor-sharp portrait of class, privilege and denial is premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2026.
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?
Nina Raine and Moses Raine's new adaptation of Maxim Gorky's razor-sharp portrait of class, privilege and denial is premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2026.
152 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 26, 2026
About the author
Maxim Gorky
1,772 books1,809 followersRussian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary aesthetic; his works include
The Life of Klim Samgin
(1927-1936), an unfinished cycle of novels.
This Soviet author founded the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. People also nominated him five times for the Nobel Prize in literature. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929, he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union, he accepted the cultural policies of the time.
This Soviet author founded the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. People also nominated him five times for the Nobel Prize in literature. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929, he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union, he accepted the cultural policies of the time.
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March 29, 2026
“No one we know is content”
Originally written as a satirical response to The Cherry Orchard and newly adapted for the London stage. A slightly weird mix of depressed Russians holidaying in the woods together with people they hate during the summer of 1905. Surprisingly funny and engaging for a group of thoroughly dislikable characters.
Originally written as a satirical response to The Cherry Orchard and newly adapted for the London stage. A slightly weird mix of depressed Russians holidaying in the woods together with people they hate during the summer of 1905. Surprisingly funny and engaging for a group of thoroughly dislikable characters.
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