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

Patrick Geoghegan is a professor of history at Trinity College Dublin and presents Talking History on Newstalk radio on Sundays at 7pm.