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Tag: Anton Chekhov
Theater in Sketch: LYDIE BREEZE Part 3: MADAKET ROAD (EgoPo)
The EgoPo Classical Theater’s production of John Guare’s Lydie Breeze part III was asking the fundamental question, “what is ‘it’.”
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LYDIE BREEZE PART ONE: COLD HARBOR (EgoPo): Ambitious, sprawling, but emotionally hollow
COLD HARBOR is fast-paced and skillfully produced, with a large, stylistically diverse cast, but at its emotional core it is stiff and distant.
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UNCLE VANYA (Quintessence): Tedious boring people
Good productions of Chekhov remind us of how vital his work still can be. Bad productions feed the narrative that his plays are dated, charmless, and inconsequential.
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SEAGULL (EgoPo): A comedy of torn hearts and thwarted dreams
The pathetically unfulfilled romantic expectations! The sad characters and absurd human comedy! EgoPo nails it, and beautifully. Sketches by Chuck Schultz.
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STUPID FUCKING BIRD (Arden): A sidesplitting and insightful reinvention of Chekhov
Aaron Posner’s hilarious reinvention of The Seagull captures all of Chekhov’s laughable characters, absurdities of life, and self-references to the theater from a 21st-century perspective.
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THREE SISTERS AND A WOLF (Wee Keep Company): 2015 Fringe review 23
By exploring the way performances interact with the world in which they are made, THREE SISTERS AND A WOLF shows how Chekhov can thrive in the wilds of PA.
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THE CHERRY ORCHARD (People’s Light): Capturing the comedy, insight, and pathos of Chekhov
Completed in 1904, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Anton Chekhov’s final dramatic work, is the most often staged of all Russian plays worldwide, and its production at…
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THE ADULTS (New Paradise Laboratories): Fringe Review 20
Rhrough minimal, absurd dialogue and highly stylized, disjointed movement, the ensemble-devised work evokes the boredom and bad behavior of a privileged vacationing family of film artists and their guests.
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Conversations on Chekhov: What gimmicks? The Arden’s THREE SISTERS has a lasting effect
In September of 1900 Anton Chekhov confessed in a letter to his actress-wife Olga Knipper: “I find it very difficult to write THREE SISTERS, much more…
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Stirring BLACK MONK Offered Up by Simpatico
“Forget all the laws of optics, which the legend does not recognize” —Anton Chekhov, The Black Monk Attempting to summarize the best modernist short stories…
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Simpatico concludes its Philadelphia season with David Rabe’s THE BLACK MONK
“She began dressing, too. Only now, looking at her, Kovrin realised the danger of his position — realised the meaning of the black monk and…
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