Summerfolk: ‘None of Us Seem to Have the Time. And Yet We Never Actually Get Anything Done’

Shalimov: Of course I’m disappointing. I’m a human. I very much enjoyed a production of Maxim Gorky’s 1904 play ‘Summerfolk’ at the National Theatre, London . (A new version by Nina and Moses Raine. Until 29 April.) Nikolai: Sonya and Zimin think that the purpose of life is solving various social, moral and other problems, and I’m telling them that life is the art of looking at life. We spend a…