Word: elena
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...melodrama who can't face the awful truth. But the horror of Serebriakov is that he is too full of himself to begin to understand what Vanya is talking about. Instead of playing Serebriakov's intentions, Zito plays him from the outside, as an Asshole. As his wife, Elena, Bonnie Zimmering gives an earnest and detailed performance that is also in the wrong key. Her painful second act scene with Serebriakov, for example, becomes a shrieking match, when Elena's real tragedy is that she suffers too silently, that she pleads instead of yelling back...
However, Ford's book is more than a manual of manners. Its most valuable contributions are about coping with contemporary life, especially the decathlon of divorce (she has had two). She writes of survival as a single, raising children (her daughter Elena Niarchos is now 13) without a paternal presence, dealing with the gossip that sprouts like toadstools after the decree nisi, and deciding which friends you have left...