Overview

1904. Early summer in the Russian countryside. The general's widow is entertaining two generations of friends, neighbors and family. It is an afternoon of food, drink, music, dancing, cards, fireworks and conversation. On display is the gamut of human behavior comic, pathetic, dignified, visionary, blinkered in a society to whom history is about to speak. This play is a theatrical meditation on the imaginative Russian film makers' reworking of themes from Chekhov's short fiction and plays, most notably Platonov.