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AUTHOR: ANTON CHEKHOV...
Last week the Randall troupe opened a second season with, as promised, a heartening leap forward. Its staging of The Seagull is imperfect and at times campy, taking too literally Chekhov's admonition that his plays are comedies. But it tells the story beautifully and has several interesting ideas about the text...
...Above all we must not forget that Shakespeare might take over, and we must work doubly hard for Chekhov," Oz concluded...
...other end of the scale of suffering is Wasserstein's wry comedy about three sisters (yes, they make frequent references to Chekhov) whose problem is not failing to get to Moscow but failing to stay, spiritually, in their ancestral Jewish Brooklyn. All three are compulsive achievers. The eldest, broodingly played by Jane Alexander, is a global banker based in London, where the others have come to visit. The youngest (Frances McDormand) is a tomboyish travel writer who lives more for the escape of travel than for the art of writing. The middle sister (Madeline Kahn) is a self-credentialed / psychotherapist...
...Chekhov Jokes About Love--by Anton Chekhov. Directed by Beth Milles. Loeb Experimental Theater...