Fathers and Sons

这是一部叙事清晰、情感传递精准、让人很容易产生同感的作品，舞台上一群人的情感纠葛，会让观众全然忘我地度过四个小时。
俄国代表作家屠格涅夫的名著《父与子》，揭示了贵族阶级中父辈与子辈之间观念上的冲突。与屠格涅夫的切入角度相同，导演Daniela Löffner在执导过程中，并没有刻意宣扬某种观念，而是以冷静理智的观察者身份，让舞台上充满对人性的体察，不做道德判断，而是让人物之间的冲突顺其自然地展开，让每个角色的性格轮廓高度鲜明。她成功地将屠格涅夫对后继者契诃夫的影响体现出来，在微妙的冷幽默与不动声色的悲伤之间达成了平衡。
Two young men arrive at a country estate, fresh from university: one, the son of the landowner, the other a brilliant and charismatic radical, proclaiming a dangerous new philosophy. But their warm welcome cools as the new house guest attacks the values of his hosts, bringing to the surface the tensions between one generation and the next.
Over the course of a summer, political ideals are tested by filial duty and the arrival of Anna, a mysterious visitor whose presence stirs the heart and threatens a friendship.
FATHERS AND SONS speaks of the heartbreak of being a parent and the terrible compromise of growing up. Lyndsey Turner returns to the Donmar to direct Brian Friel’s thrilling dramatisation of Turgenev’s masterpiece.