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...play opens a young teacher Leon Tolchinsky (Benajah Cobb), arrives in Kulyenchikov to assume his new post. He gradually learns of the curse and quickly falls in love with Sophia Zubritsky (Andrea Burke) Tolchinsky has twenty four hours in which a been be lifted only in Sophia marries the repellent Count Gregor Yousekevitch (Robert Kane). In cliched though sometimes amusing fashion Tolchinsky fails Disaster is averted however when after Sophia tells him that she no longer accepts the validity of the curse Tolchinsky claims to belong to the Yousekevitch family. The townspeople accept Leon's assertion, and after Leon...
...colorful stylization of character, several actors stand out Andrea Burke has a beautiful voice and some marvellous moments as Sophia Zubrisky, it is a pity that the script betrays her into mouthing platitudes as the play ends. Burke's contribution is especially refreshing next to the misguided efforts of Benajah Cobb, whose strained portrayal of Leon Tolchinsky cannot be grounded in an sense of the reality of Kulyenchikov...
...their lines on a note of relief, not flippant joie de vivre. And while the cast is continually singing of frolic, they sometimes pay only lip service to the concept. After a particularly complicated dance scene at the close of "It's Delovely," Hope Harcourt (Eva Yablonsky) throws Billy (Benajah Cobb) a long grateful look.\Maybe it's love, but maybe it's because he didn't drop her. Unfortunately, the show's recurring hints of uncertainty tend to suggest the latter...
THREE HOURS IN LENGTH, director Magaril's production varies widely in quality. The cast seems to walk through certain scenes, such as the mini-climax which occurs when Christine (Debbie Wasser) kills Ezra (Benajah Cobb). The underplayed emotions defuse the scene's potential. At other points, though, the tension is very real. A card game between mother and daughter and the final conversation between brother and sister provide a genuine spark...
...only as a backdrop for their individual tensions. Peter Howard brilliantly captures Constantine's internal agitation; Claudia Silver is dazzling in her portrayal of his vain, cruel, but basically insecure mother; and Molly White plays the brooding and morose Masha with frightening conviction. Nina Bernstein as Nina Zarechny and Benajah Cobb as the old writer Trigorin are also superb...