Home of the Gentry presented by On the Spot Theatre at The Greenhouse Theater Center

When the nobleman Fyodor Lavretsky returns home to his family in Russia, five years after a broken marriage sent him wandering through Europe, he seeks the happiness that eluded him when he was young. Mike Brayndick's compelling new adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev novel is an elegiac love story with a wry twist of social drama. In the drawing room of the Kalitin household, you will meet the nobleman Fyodor Lavretsky as he visits his widowed cousin Marya who lives with her sharp-tongued, elderly Aunt Marfa, and her two daughters, the kind-hearted Liza, and the mischievous Shuraska. This household is frequented by the gossipy Sergei Geodonovsky, the frustrated German music teacher, Christophe Lemm, and the young, ambitious government official, Vladimir Panshin.