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A rousing Russian drama of angry youth on verge of revolution

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20070531
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FIRST NIGHT Philistines Lyttleton, National Theatre *** HOW strange and how elating it is to discover that the angry young adults in the Russian bourgeois family of Maxim Gorky's Philistines resemble their Edwardian and even their 21st-century English equivalents. The war between the generation blazes with timeless ardour.

Philistines, Gorky's first play, which had to wait for a major professional production in Britain until the Royal Shakespeare's in 1986, certainly rates as an apprentice shot in the dark of prerevolutionary Russia.

Its plot sprawls to the point of flabbiness and Andrew ...

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