Word: telyegin
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...British stage performer probably best known here for his film roles (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner; Dr. Zhivago), offers a Vanya of precise but wistful enunciations, interspersed with moments of careening grandeur. But the rest of the cast is weak. Gerry Bamman overacts as the bankrupt landowner Telyegin. Amanda Donohoe (formerly of L.A. Law) looks lovely as the irresistible beauty Yelena but fails to wring any pathos from her realization that in life she has "always played a minor role." As the professor, Werner Klemperer produces a small fool when we long for a big one-there...
...then his job is easier. He grates on everyone, he demands attention and energy from all, and his presence, like that of a great brooding ogre, hangs over the stage when he is off it. Among the one-dimensional characters, Gloria Maddox's Sofya, and Bruce Kornbluth's Telyegin are well put-together too, (though someone ought to get Kornbluth a balaika and get rid of that Everly Brothers-vintage guitar he's stuck with), and Gertrude Crippen's Marina is excellent...
...seem to be alive to all the intricacies of her part. It is impossible to gather from her behavior in Act I that she and Sofya have been antagonistic--and this must be clear by Act II. She has the same half-smile for Astrov, for Vanya, even for Telyegin, when he protests at her forgetting his name. As a result, her dialogue drags; one feels surprise, instead of quiet uneasiness, when her relations with the others are made clear...
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