Under the direction of Mark Babych, whose bustling production includes Ukrainian folk song and dance, there’s a strong performance from the cast, topped by Geoffrey Beevers as the twinkly-eyed Nikolai – who’s much taken with his leggy, younger wife.įor all its humour – including actors popping up through the packing trunks that form part of the stage set – it’s a moving drama about getting on when life’s giving you a kicking. It also makes this drama something more than a funny clash of cultures, by making us aware of the grim life the family left – through flashbacks to their escape from Stalin’s brutal regime in the Soviet Union. Book excerpt: Nominated for the Man Booker Prize 'A charming comedy of eros. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. He’s going to get married again, to Valentina, a pneumatic, blonde, thirty-six-year-old. Their eighty-four-year-old father has fallen in love. But things change abruptly when they hear troubling news. It’s something which the novelist, writing in the programme notes, said had brought a tear to her eye. Download or read book A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian written by Marina Lewycka and published by Penguin. They’ve never been close: in fact, they’ve been engaged in a feud for the last two years over the division of their late mother’s assets. In this adaptation of the best-selling novel, playwright Tanika Gupta has tweaked the storyline by placing Nikolai’s late wife as the show’s narrator. His daughters – Nadezdha and Vera – are, unsurprisingly, less than impressed at his plans to marry her. Hull Truck’s production captures the comedy and the pathos of the tale, which follows the family fall-out after Nikolai, a widowed, 84-year-old Ukrainian living in the UK, falls for the 36-year-old gold digger Valentina. Now Marina Lewycka’s quirkily-titled, and quirkily-themed, A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian has arrived on stage. It was the best-selling novel which sold more than a million copies.
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