(photo credit: Joseph Hammond)
by Jasmine Chen
@CHENPINGTING
Summerfolk by Maxim Gorky, featuring the graduating class of the Ryerson Theatre School, opened this Friday at Ryerson's Mainstage Theatre. Grad shows tend to be massive productions; plays with enough roles for everyone in the class and the opportunity for production students to work on a large scale show, showcasing four years of training in action. Written in 1904, Summerfolk is about a madcap collection of Russian middle class men and women who spend the summer together at a summer home where they bicker, fall in love, out of love, have affairs, philosophize, get drunk and grow to hate each other.
