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Pirandello used to ponder the curious fate of the great playwright who, being mortal, changed and died, but whose characters were immutable and immortal. Witnessing great drama means spending an evening with these immortals. The Three Sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, who yearn in vain to go to Moscow, have a place in the minds and hearts of people who have never even seen the Chekhov play...
Nancy Cox (Olga), Susan Yakutis (Masha), Martin Andrucki (Vershinin), Deborah Holzel (Natasha), Daniel Seltzer (Doctor), Paul Shutt (Kulygin), and practically everyone else-all let their souls pour over the auditorium from time to time if not all the time. Lori Heineman as Irina and Andre Bishop as Andrei go even further than that, opening themselves up to let us see their entire nervous systems almost every second they are on stage. No matter how self-enclosed you are upon arrival at the Loeb during the next two weeks, you simply will not be able to pass up Heineman and Bishop...
Kate Reid is the show's weak link as the middle sister Masha (the role originally played by Chekhov's own wife), bored with her marriage to a pedant and fated to be separated from the one man she comes to love. For one thing--and it may be ungallant to say so--Miss Reid can no longer pass for a young woman in her midtwenties. Masha is also the most complicated of the three sisters. Miss Reid has no particular trouble conveying the blunt, even coarse speech of Masha, but she has not sufficiently plumbed the poetic sensitivity that...
Michael McGuire, with handlebar moustache, goatee, and a chest full of medals, cuts a handsome and dashing figure as the garrulous, fortyish battery commander Vershinin, who saddled with an impossible wife, obtains Masha's love in one of the play's several amorous triangles. He is just fine as he repeats his desire for a glass of tea, and finally gives up, saying, "Well, if we can't have any tea, lets philosophize...
Joseph Maher is acceptable as Masha's doting husband Kulygin, a pathetic and essentially brainless schoolteacher who likes to go around spouting worn-out Latin slogans. We must forgive him, for he knows not what he does to Masha...