Classic tale adapted
“Summer Lightning”— screening tomorrow (Sunday) on One at 9.30 p.m.—is a tragic story of young love. Transferring Turgenev’s classic Russian story, “First Love” to Ireland, as adapted by Derek Mahon and Paul Joyce, “Summer Lightning” finds young Robert Clarke in pre-fam-ine Ireland undergoing his sexual awakening. Robert’s love for Louise is guileless, while she manipulates all about her with a strange mixture of method and innocence.
Inexorably, Robert is sucked into an adult web of intrigue, passion and violence. His introduction to the ways of the world is cruel and brutal, and he will never feel capable of openness, trust or love again. Paul Scofield stars as an old man looking back on a magical summer of his youth. Edward RawleHicks plays the role of Robert with control and sensitivity, while Leonie Mellinger is the ideal foil as the poised, conniving and elegant Louise.
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Press, 14 March 1987, Page 18
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147Classic tale adapted Press, 14 March 1987, Page 18
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