Peter Dinklage, Taylor Schilling co-star in off-Broadway play

An off-Broadway production of Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country has attracted a star of Game of Thrones and another from behind bars.

Classic Stage Company said on Tuesday that Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage and Taylor Schilling from Orange Is The New Black will co-star as Rakitin and Natalya in the revival, which kicks off on January 9.

The play, set on a country estate in 1840s Russia, deals with a bored, older and married woman who falls for a younger man, her son’s tutor, who is idolised by the woman’s vulnerable ward. Meanwhile, the older woman is worshipped by a long-suffering admirer.

The company’s other shows this season include William Shakespeare’s Hamlet starring Peter Sarsgaard, and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, starring Sex in the City star Chris Noth.