| re: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike | |
| Posted by: portenopete 09:40 am EDT 05/13/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike - lowwriter 08:39 am EDT 05/13/24 | |
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| I'm glad the LCT recording exists to preserve what was a significant success in the NY theatre but watching it reminded me of the discomfort I felt at the Mark Taper ten years or so ago. A top flight cast led by Kristine Nielsen, Christine Ebersole and the late Mark Blum couldn't seem to make the script land with the audience that night and I had wondered if Weaver and Hyde-Pierce had had some special magic, but the audience at the Newhouse doesn't sound any more enraptured than that L.A. crowd was. After watching this one I was glad I'd seen the cast I saw. I've been in many audiences that were falling apart howling and I was left feeling puzzled and a little cranky, but this wasn't the case at VANYA. I'd welcome any of our resident experts on ATC to offer a quick dissection of just what the Durang style is, especially when it's juxtaposed with Chekhov's approach. They seem like polar opposites to me: Chekhov's extreme naturalism where the humour emerges from unfunny situations with the characters unaware of how self-defeating they're being; and then Durang, where every character appears to be acutely self-aware that they are characters in a play spouting lines. |
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