Word: masha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...constant changes of character do justice to the often excellent acting. Only Page Leong (Nina and Masha) really seems comfortable with the constant transitions, managing to define and distinguish her two roles without overacting. Shishir Kurup solves this conundrum by hamming up Sorin so that he can play Taper/Trigorin with deadpan nonchalance. Christopher Liam Moore, on the other hand, makes little distinction at all between Cam/Konstantin and Simon/Medviedenko. As with other aspects of the play, enormous promise, here in the form of fine acting, is ultimately undermined by taking dramatic conceits like these schizoid duos...
...Reported by Masha Pavlenko/Moscow and Elaine Shannon/Washington
Most stars prefer to summer in places other than Moscow, so a bona fide celebrity gets noticed. And Richard Gere has been noticed ducking out early from screenings at the film festival he's attending, kissing a woman called "Masha" onstage at the festival's opening, and getting a police citation for fishing illegally...
Erin McMurtry as Masha steals the show almost every time she is on stage. Masha, the daughter of the estate manager, is almost as depressed as Konstantin. While lamenting ("I am in mourning for my life"), she is fundamentally more level-headed; McMurtry makes the character more real than many in The Seagull...
...same can be said of Catherine Zuber's costume design. There is blatant symbolism at work: in one scene Arkadina is dressed in red, innocent Nina in white and morbid Masha in black. Although hardly a surprise when Nina turns up in the second act dressed in red, one's concentration is only momentarily diverted...