Summerfolk review – lazy days of passion and privilege at Gorky’s doomed dacha

Olivier theatre, LondonWriters Nina and Moses Raine add comedy and raunch to Maxim Gorky’s satire of the holidaying eliteIn 1898, Maxim Gorky wrote a fan letter to Anton Chekhov. Gorky was just starting out, and the leading light in Russian theatre convinced him to try his hand at plays.