Vassa Zheleznova review " Liverpool dock strike is no match for the Russian revolution
Southwark Playhouse, LondonAn updating of Gorky's play loses the moral ambiguity surrounding its female protagonist and makes little sense uprooted from its historial contextMaxim Gorky's play exists in two versions " one written in 1910, the other in 1935 "both of which feature a domineering female entrepreneur. Emily Juniper has come up with a new version for The Faction theatre company which transposes the action …