Word: chekhov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...store guy and his pal from the video store talk dirty but think long and wistfully about the life that is passing them by. Their customers and girlfriends are just as lost, goofy and irrelevant. The budget for Kevin Smith's movie was $27,575, but he's the Chekhov of slacker life -- and maybe of America's secret life...
...Cheever is our little Chekhov; like ragtime, he should be played slowly. The elegance and pain in his work need to be discovered gradually, like the bruised beauty of a sunset. These actors do get the shouting scenes right; their abrupt, strangulated outbursts are appropriate to people who have been bred to optimism and implosion, not to the articulation of rage. And Van Dyck finds wit and poignancy in her several roles. She often has the taut stillness of a woman listening for catastrophe. But the rest of the cast often pushes too hard. Any overacting brutalizes Cheever's prose...
...Anton Chekhov directed by Ron Daniels at the American Repertory Theatre through February...
...production of The Cherry Orchard, Yermolai Lopakhin rouses himself in the middle of the night to greet a train. Although the businessperson wakes up, he seems to wake into a dream in which everything is slightly off-balance. Director Ron Daniels' airy, sweetly comic production emphasizes the imblances of Chekhov's picture of a changing world...
...Chekhov would have appreciated this production of his classic, which emphasizes the script's comic elements. He always insisted the play was a comedy, despite the preponderance of productions that yearned for political implications and darker meanings. The A.R.T.'s Cheery Orchard depicts the passage of an age in the sunlight of a dreamlike afternoon...