Word: chekhovisms
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...With Chekhov, you always expect it to be kind of staunch, but it was very intelligent and funny,” said Amanda Brasher, a senior at the Boston Conservatory. “It was very accessible. That’s what will bring the public in to see these shows...
Next up, Watson will produce a film she co-wrote with her husband, screenwriter Jack Waters. At the moment, she's back home in London, appearing in the Donmar Warehouse productions of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. "After Red Dragon, the biggest, most Hollywood-est movie I've ever been in, this opportunity came up," she says. "To be able to play Viola and Sonya in the same breath--it's good." Best of all, she doesn't have to share a dressing room with a cannibal. --By Jess Cagle
...Arguably, the first traveler to willingly visit?and leave?the island was Russian writer Anton Chekhov, who came in 1890 to study life in the penal colony. After finishing his book The Island?a Journey to Sakhalin, Chekhov remarked, "I have seen Ceylon, and it is heaven, and now I have seen Sakhalin, and it is hell." Despite his stinging account, the people of Sakhalin have a lasting affection for the playwright and his introduction of the island to the world. His likeness vies with Lenin's on monuments throughout Sakhalin's capital, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk...
...first?or second?bottle, try to get to Yuzhno's popular local brewery in the center of town. Higher-minded pursuits include the Sakhalin regional museum (housed in the Imperial Japanese Government Offices dating from when the Japanese controlled southern Sakhalin from 1905-45), the Russian Orthodox Church, the Chekhov Theater, street markets selling everything from wild berries to furs, and Gagarin Park, complete with mountain backdrop, a small train and a pristine lake...
...morning of my final day in Sakhalin, still reeling from excessive exercise of the liver, I boarded the Eins Soya ferry at Korsakov for the five-and-a-half-hour trip across the Sea of Okhotsk to Wakkanai, Japan. Chekhov, too, intended to take a boat to Japan from Sakhalin, but a raging cholera outbreak on the Japanese side caused the good doctor to cancel his trip. I soon passed out in a deck chair for the duration of the ferry ride?but not before musing that, one day, return journeys to Sakhalin might even be fashionable...