The Grand Gesture " review
Harrogate theatreA banned Russian play from the 1920s is given a northern spin in this powerful adaptationA hungry man goes into the kitchen to snaffle a midnight sausage. His family and neighbours imagine he's putting a gun in his mouth in an attempt at suicide. Worn down by poverty and unemployment, the man decides to make their misunderstanding a reality.It's not an obviously comic scenario, yet the Russian theatr…