Jermyn Street Theatre, LondonIn historian Orlando Figes' rather too formal first play, the passionate romantic's friends try to persuade him to be a little more worldly While researching his book, The Europeans, Orlando Figes fell for the famous writers that populated his expansive work on 19th-century Europe. Turgenev was at the heart of The Europeans, but Flaubert is the focus of Figes' very first play. With the g…
