Finally got to see this in downtown Denver on Saturday afternoon. It's an entertaining Chekhovian (and consciously so) tale of age and sibling rivalry and ego and regret, but leavened with plenty of humor. The language gets a bit awkward at times, and the ending feels a bit too neatly wrapped, but it was an enjoyable way to pass the afternoon.
The play was penned by Christopher Durang, and the Broadway version won the 2013 Tony.
(Picture: Eddie Lopez [Spike], Kathleen McCall [Masha], (Director Jenn Thompson), Amelia White [Sasha], Lesley Shires, Sam Gregory [Vanya], and Socorro Santiago [Cassandra]. Photo by John Moore.)
Another installment in our effort to See More Theater, and a pretty successful one.
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My favorite things about it were actually the set and costuming. The house truly felt like a home with all of the minute and intricate pieces, and the contrasts in the costumes truly emphasized the characters. Masha and Spike were vibrant and bright while Vanya and Sonya were dull. The blue and red of Masha and Spike, foreshadowing the opposition…
It was definitely a fun show. ^_^
+Derik DaSilva Yeah, I liked the set a lot — it worked well with the intimacy of the theater it was being shown in and had that very full and cluttered feeling that a real house gets over time.
(And, keeping with the Chekhovian theme, when the phone rang late in the show, I leaned over to +Kay Hill and noted, "If you put a telephone on the bookshelf in Act 1, it has to ring by Act 3 …")