Word: love
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suitors who flock about the sisters are also well-played. John Bellucci masterfully plays Vershinin, the philosophizing soldier with whom Masha falls in love. Bellucci works his rich and versatile voice like a musical instrument, retaining extraordinary control of volume, diction and timing in long, technically taxing monologues. He meticulously defines his character by pacing constantly around the stage in repeated circles that parallel his sermons...
...however, Kogan's tour de force helps to uncover the structure of Chekhov's play, composed in part of a series of ceaseless competing refrains of leitmotifs. Irina sighs her frustrated desire to go to Moscow, Vershinin "philosophizes" and bewails his marital misfortunes, and Natasha inanely shrieks her mother love--all accompanied by recurring Chopin preludes...
...heart. Clark as the youngest sister deftly moves from lighthearted young girl to pensive despairing woman. In one scene she darts across the stage, childishly reveling in the attention she receives; in the next, she stonily recalls her former happiness and despairs of finding fulfillment in work or love. Clark uses a completely different tone, inflection, gestures and stage movement to differentiate the younger and older Irina...
Cornuelle's spare acting aptly characterizes Masha, the bored middle sister tied to a pompous posturing schoolmaster husband. She rigidly controls her movements, gestures and voice, yet manages to convey Masha's emotional conflict, especially her moving confession of love for Vershinin...
...recorded the feelings which are born of the incessant routines of motherly love. Her experiences were crystallized in poetry which comes through time: time of work, time of need, time of parenthood. Her words embodied a prayer which she went over again and again until these words could carry the need of her soul. She spent hours murmuring the words, praying the words which would support that motherly need to know that all she had done for her child had been for the best. Finally she wrote them down...