The Morningside Players presents Brian Friel's adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's masterpiece about a quiet country estate disrupted by the arrival of a seductive tutor.
Natalya Petrovna, once wooed and won over by the rich landowner Arkadi Sergeyevich Islayev, has grown frustrated in the marriage. She finds comfort in the love of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Rakitin, a family friend. But when Aleksei Nikolayevich Belyaev, her son's dashing 21-year-old tutor, arrives on the scene, she finds a new object of desire. 'A Month in the County' is a nuanced meditation on the nature of unrequited love.