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Two Friends, Three Sisters

Posted by Annika Isbell on January 25, 2019

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Yury Butusov's Three Sisters

As a student of theater, I’ve had to spend a fair amount of time with the plays of Anton Chekhov, and out of his four purported masterpieces, Three Sisters is the only one that never clicked with me. I love the interpersonal stakes of Uncle Vanya and the melancholy portrait of class relations in The Cherry Orchard . I can find common ground with characters like Trigorin and even the unstable Konstantin in The Seagull . But Three Sisters has remained impenetrable. Chekhov’s characters are known for the way they talk around the main points of their conversations, but Three Sisters is his only play where this tendency, elsewhere confined to the moment-to-moment dialogue, is writ large in the story’s overall structure. Despite Three Sisters ’ eclectic cast of characters and the constantly shifting dynamics between them, determining the play’s central conflict (or whether one exists to begin with) is no small task. For four whole acts, the play revolves around something without ever f...

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Video Review

Here's my video review of the Opera we saw. Unlike those who produced Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk , the tools and craft with which I made this is not some of the best in Russia, so please be more forgiving of my video than I was with the Opera. Also, another disclaimer: the videos and images I used are very old and most of them are promotional in nature, so I'm not able to capture what the show we saw actually was like and show the more stilted acting and clumsy technical work.

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