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...that she recommended it to Mia P. Walker ’10, who subsequently directed it this past fall in the Loeb Ex, casting Kargman as the female lead.In addition to “Manuscript,” Kargman’s favorite theatrical performances at Harvard have been Chekhov??s “The Seagull” on the Loeb Mainstage and Kopit’s “Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You In the Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad,” the inaugural production...
...very mysterious person in life,” Rodríguez says. “Nobody got to know him deeply, so he had an aura of mystery, and we wanted to try to approach his figure.”Rodríguez, who is writing her dissertation on Chekhov??s contributions to drama, also sought to express the elusiveness of his writing. The play revolves around six historical characters, all related to Chekhov??s life, that have made a journey to a strange garden. Realizing that it is Chekhov??s garden, they wait...
...that of a film or even a novel. In fact, it’s this sense of closeness that drew director Adam G. Zalisk ’07 to the script. His past three productions were much more canonical: Sophocles’ “Antigone,” Chekhov??s “The Seagull” and Shakespeare’s “Richard II.” “Having a 20-minute scene really allows a kind of depth of...character work that I hadn’t gotten...
...sense of space was keen: her use of the built-in balcony in the black box theater was both imaginative and practical, transforming the small floor space into a believable hospital.Unlike the first two plays, the second half of the production consisted of two one-man performances—Chekhov??s “Swan Song” and Bennett’s “Playing Sandwiches.”In the Johnson directed “Swan Song,” Jesse W. Barron ’08 played the role of Wasill Svletlovldoff, an actor...
...Andrei lost two hundred last night. The whole town is talking about it.” “My wife tried to kill herself again last night.” This exchange, coming late in the first half of director Krystian Lupa’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov??s play “Three Sisters,” exemplifies the tone of the work. The play itself is unremittingly bleak, and Lupa’s direction only amplifies the work’s sense of desperation—which both overtly and subtly pervades each scene?...