So long, THREE SISTERS

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So long, THREE SISTERS

Posted: 3/6/11 at 2:07pm

This production broke my heart about ten times in one evening. I have never seen such a great ensemble cast. Best production of Chekhov I have ever seen.

Heartbreaking, heartbreaking, heartbreaking.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

So long, THREE SISTERS

Posted: 3/6/11 at 2:52pm

Sad I never got to see it. Still disappointed that an extension wasn't possible, even though most of the actors were available and interested.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

So long, THREE SISTERS

Posted: 3/6/11 at 4:04pm

Saw it yesterday and it was excruciating. Couldn't stand the direction, the acting, the translation. Painful to sit through.

It would be nice if they picked a time period and stuck with it.

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

So long, THREE SISTERS

Posted: 3/6/11 at 5:39pm

It would be nice if they picked a time period and stuck with it.

Um...what??? And what exactly was "terrible" about the acting and direction?

Updated On: 3/6/11 at 05:39 PM

So long, THREE SISTERS

Posted: 3/6/11 at 6:15pm

One actress was out of place -- but not enough to significantly damage a beautiful production. We are not likely to see this play done better than this any time soon.

So long, THREE SISTERS

Posted: 3/7/11 at 12:42pm

I liked the actors and admire the director but agree that this was a painful production to sit through. The production was nailed to one slow and deliberate speed that started to drive me crazy. I understand that it's about ennui but I've never been bored reading the play. The play is bleak but it's also charming and often funny. Not this production.

So long, THREE SISTERS

Posted: 3/8/11 at 8:14pm

I found it sluggish and dull.

Just because the costumes were clearly a chosen period, does not mean the performances were. Jessica was in the early 1900's. Juliet Rylance was in the Elizabethan period. And Maggie Gyllenhaal was modern. It was bizarre.

And that translation... Oh. God.

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

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