| Star Tribune - Somewhat Recommended
"...The unfortunate bargains of the Guthrie's production are best illustrated in how composer Wayne Barker's music for voice is employed. Early on, Kohane's Elizaveta sings a few bars and her gorgeous voice makes us want much more; why would you not use Kohane's instrument to reveal this spiritual creature? Instead, the songs make their biggest impact as comic vehicles for Hugh Kennedy's Panshin - a phony aristocratic suitor for Elizaveta - and Ann Michels as Lavretsky's estranged wife."
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Twin Cities Pioneer Press - Somewhat Recommended
"...There's plenty of other good acting work going on -- from Ann Michels' grapefruity (and gloriously tuneful) turn as a surprise visitor from St. Petersburg to Nathaniel Fuller's aged, flinty, fed-up valet. But in the end, those performances add up to something less than the sum of their parts in a play where strengths and possibilities never quite gel."
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How Was The Show - Recommended
"...Playwright Crispin Whittell and the determined Guthrie cast endeavor to turn Ivan Turgenev's melancholic, poignant, dreamy, and oh-so-Russian novel Home Of The Gentry into a brisk, bracing and breezy drawing room comedy - and they, for the most part, succeed."
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