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THREE SISTERS. Edward Herrmann and Linda Hunt head an all-star cast that Broadway producers would envy in Chekhov's tragedy of a family thwarted, but the staging is way off-Broadway -- 50 miles off -- at Princeton's McCarter Theater...
Friel has been much influenced by Chekhov. Aristocrats was unabashedly Chekhovian, a sort of Ballybeg version of The Cherry Orchard. But Chekhov never attempted anything like Lughnasa's narrative complexity, and never wrote so richly about the unprivileged. This time there are no echoes of homage in Friel's work, just authentic originality...
...Three Sisters--by Anton Chekhov, performed by the Brandeis University Arts Department. In the Laurie Theater at Brandeis University. Call 736-3400. At 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday; at 3 and 7 p.m. on Sunday; and at 8 p.m. on Wednesday...
...senior writer Bruce Nelan, a former Moscow bureau chief who wrote our 1989 Man of the Decade cover story on Gorbachev. Working with him were assistant editor Brigid O'Hara-Forster, whose research about Soviet politics is given added breadth by her abiding interest in the works of Chekhov, and Kevin Fedarko, who has a master's in Russian history and literature. In Washington, Strobe Talbott and David Aikman provided insights gained doing numerous Soviet stories. Since 1969, when he was an intern in the Moscow bureau, Strobe has made nearly 30 trips to the Soviet Union. His story...
...cast of The Three Sisters functioned well as a unit yet established distinctive characters. Rather than being overwhelmed by the playwright, as so many directors of Chekhov seem to be, Cross displays confidence in her own vision. She combines traditional domestic vignettes with innovative staging to communicate a feeling first of warmth and then of alienation...