Burnt by the Sun

But on one glorious sunny morning in 1936, his wife's former lover returns from a long and unexplained absence

Amidst a tangle of sexual jealousy, retribution and remorseless political backstabbing, Kotov feels the full, horrifying reach of Stalin's rule

A rich evocation of a world poised on the brink of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the 1994 Oscar-winning film written by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibragimbekov

" ... a cracker ... starts out like something by Chekhov and ends up as a gripping Stalinist thriller ... Funny, affecting and taut with suspense, Burnt by the Sun is a new play that already feels like a classic" ~ Telegraph

" ... a brilliant playwriting achievement ... a wonderful panoramic view of a family and its misfortune with an inexorable, gruesome dramatic tread" ~ Independent