In search of a simpler life, a doctor and his wife move to the country. One night he comes home with an unconscious woman in his arms. He claims to have found her collapsed on a rural roadside. The three characters play out a game of secrets and lies, and what was an escape to the country becomes an implosion of the heart, heightened and echoed by the intense expanse and silence of the countryside. The Country is a beautiful cryptic thriller by Martin Crimp, one of the world’s greatest contemporary dramatists.