The Promise " review
Trafalgar Studios, LondonAleksei Arbuzov's play, with its suggestion that the wartime siege of Leningrad emotionally devastated a whole generation, must have seemed daring in the Soviet Union of 1965. Revived today, as part of the third Donmar season providing a showcase for young directors, it seems thin gruel: you long to know more about the siege and less about the awkward relationship on which Arbuzov focuses.The…