Word: chekhov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This winter Winger will be performing in Anton Chekhov's Ivanov at the American Repertory Theater as Anna, Ivanov's wife. Ivanov will be playing from Nov. 26 until...
...dangers in Hata's war and peace, the physical threats are easier to handle than the emotional perils. On this point, Doc Hata would agree with the granddaddy of quietly affecting writers, Doc Chekhov, who said that any idiot can handle a crisis; it's day-to-day living that wears...
Tommy Lee Jones '69 is not a convincing consumptive. Last Monday, at a benefit for the Poets' Theatre, he and Stockard Channing '65 performed a reading of Love Chekhova selection of love letters between Anton Chekhov and his eventual wife, Olga Knipper. The two celebrities were first secured for the performance, and then Love, Chekhov was created for them to perform. Yet it doesn't exactly showcase their talents...
Jones, on the other hand, hardly found the voice of Chekhov. Amply filling out his suit, perched on a barstool, Jones sat stumbling over Russian place names, Of course, the reading was rehearsed only once, but surely Jones could have learned his pronunciation. His physical and iconic presence did not actually detract from his performance, and in fact his Texas accent suited the gruff, serious and asexual Chekhov as much as it distracted. His delivery, on the other hand, was just flat. One had the feeling that Jones is an actor for active, visual roles and that sitting...
...letters themselves were a surprise. They contained virtually no reflection on (or of ) Chekhov's art and instead sketched a loose plot about marital procrastination. Most exciting in their salutations (such as "my little actress" and "daughter") and in Chekhov's evasive discussions of travel, they also made an occasional gasp at beauty ("One of the cranes has flown away. Still no rain. They're building a shed in the courtyard. The other crane is bored."). Dominick Jones, who adapted the letters, included a subtle subplot in which Chekhov sends misleading and contradictory travel plans to Olga so that...