In 1959, geneticist Dmitry Belyayev began catching silver foxes in Siberia. Keeping them in captivity, he selected the tamest ones and allowed them to breed.

Aislín McGuckin has the wit and elegance to play the bored Natalya, whose life of stifling privilege is smashed by her desire for her son’s tutor, the 21-year-old Aleksei, in Turgenev’s play, A Month in the Country, says Padraic Killeen