
Old World (1978) - repro
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Aleksei Arbuzov’s poignant Soviet dramatic masterpiece 'Old World' (masterfully translated by Ariadne Nicolaeff) completed a celebrated original Broadway premiere at the historic Ambassador Theatre in 1978, running for an accomplished commercial engagement under the banner of the theater company. The textually rich, two-character psychological narrative unfolds inside a quiet sanitarium resort on the Baltic coast in 1968, tracking the slow-burning, multi-layered autumnal romance that explodes between a rigid, buttoned-up chief clinical physician and an eccentric, fiercely independent female patient who has fled a family tragedy. Directed by Wesley Johns, it starred Anthony Quayle.

