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...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...
...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...