Wild Honey

<i>Oh Misha it's terrible to be an educated woman. An educated woman with nothing to do. What am I here for? Why am I alive? They should make me a professor somewhere or a director of something ... If I were a diplomat I'd turn the whole world upside down ... An educated woman ... And nothing to do.</i><br/><br/>Village schoolmaster Mikhail Vasilyevich has it all: wit intelligence a comfortable and respectable life in provincial Russia and the attentions of four beautiful women - one of whom is his devoted wife... As summer arrives and the seasonal festivities commence the rapidly intensifying heat makes everyone giddy with sunlight vodka - and passion.<br/><br/>Michael Frayn's comedy of errors drawn from Chekhov's untitled and posthumously discovered early play is a tale of nineteenth-century Russian life replete with classic misunderstandings irrepressible desires and nostalgia for a vanishing world. <br/><br/><i>Wild Honey </i>received its premiere in the National Theatre's Lyttelton space London on 19 July 1984. This edition was published for the revival at the Hampstead Theatre in December 2016.