Status Updates From Teatro: Il gabbiano - Zio V...

Starting The Cherry Orchard...

The Cherry Orchard: "We used to be rich. My husband died and now it's like 8 years later and now we're poor. But I don't want to sell my cherry orchard!" Woe is her. Her brother is even more dreadful. This one's a snore compared to Sam Peckinpah's dark tale Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, which I watched yesterday instead of reading. Chekhov, you've met your match?

3 Sisters - This play set the stage for all the Housewives shows. 3 women bicker while decorated men make ridiculous comments and the slovenly woman becomes the tyrant. Pretty good. Again, much about idleness versus work and the woman's place in society blah blah blah NATALIA IS A WHORE

3 sisters, alike in dignity
in a provincial town where we lay our scene
Just kidding, they're not alike at all!

Three Sisters....one is a man!
Not really.

Uncle Vanya, good guy, but perhaps the doctor had the best speeches? An interesting look at the rich & idle, and how empty their lives are, while the workers, despite their intellectualism, will never rest or be happy until they are on their deathbed. Also, romantic intrigue, Waffles, the pock-marked guitar player, an offstage gun, speaking through your tears.

do NOT fuck with Uncle Vanya, Ivan Petrovich.

had to go back after the break. then i fell asleep. so much time spent going back to the title page to see the character names because they all have like 4 names and they're used interchangeably and they're long and Russian

The Sea Gull - very cool play. All the action takes place offstage and the entire play is dialogue. There is much intrigue, cheating, etc., but you see almost none of it. Instead of focusing on the actions themselves, the focus is on the effects of the actions and the thoughts that lead up to them.