Adapted from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel of the same name, FIRST CIRCLE is a harrowing drama that was partially based on Solzhenitsyn's own experience in a Russian prison camp after World War II. It is the story of a prison camp outside of Moscow meant for dissident scientists who, having... [More]

Adapted from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel of the same name, FIRST CIRCLE is a harrowing drama that was partially based on Solzhenitsyn's own experience in a Russian prison camp after World War II. It is the story of a prison camp outside of Moscow meant for dissident scientists who, having been accused of crimes against their country, are now being forced to use their talents to serve it. A vivid portrait of Russia during this tumultuous period, FIRST CIRCLE is a shrewdly observed, acerbic, and darkly comic vision of a society gone horribly wrong. [Less]