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...were in the audience for Working Title's production of Chekhov's The Three Sisters, consider yourself lucky. The show, a combination of stellar acting, attractively atmospheric tech and thoughtful direction, illustrated the level of sophistication possible in a repertory company...
...director, Heather Cross deftly exploits the comedic as well as the tragic aspects of Chekhov's script. Fyodor Ilich Kulygin (Glenn Kessler) begins each of his scenes by asking for the whereabouts of his wife, Masha (Patricia Goldman). This habit, funny at first, becomes tragic as Kessler is revealed to be a man hopelessly trying to deny the grim reality of his loveless marriage. The alienation of the characters in The Three Sisters becomes so forceful at the production's conclusion precisely because it appears so harmlessly amusing in the play's opening scenes...
Many of the great political writers -- Nadine Gordimer, say, or Graham Greene -- catch revolution on the human scale by showing how the affairs of state impinge on even the most private of individuals. And many a writer of compassion, from Chekhov to Arthur Miller and beyond, has described how one man can be undone by his wish to be kind. Such lofty precedents do not seem out of place when discussing the exceptionally vivid and often heartbreaking first novel of Rohinton Mistry, a 38-year-old Indian living in Canada, whose debut collection of stories, Swimming Lessons, was highly acclaimed...
...wore special makeup to help. Pryce, a liberal, said he was sympathetic but stubbornly held out to repeat the role, in part because it had been such a stretch to sing musical-comedy numbers after years as one of the West End's foremost interpreters of classics, especially Chekhov. As the Engineer he kowtows and skulks, sneers and connives, yet never lapses into the stereotype of the wily Oriental. This is a man driven to sleaziness by circumstance, a man born to command business but victimized by his race, nationality, time and place. Far from a racist act, Pryce...
THREE SISTERS. Terse, scatological David Mamet and wistful, musing Anton Chekhov make a far from obvious marriage, but after successfully adapting one of the Russian's short stories and Uncle Vanya, Mamet and his Atlantic Theater Company take on a masterwork at Philadelphia's Festival Theater for New Plays...