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Off the scale
We are led to believe that the toss of a coin determined that we saw Blanchett as Electra. Only seeing the production once, I have no way of assessing what impact that might have had. What I can state very confidently is that the first half, Electra, was off-the-scale good; the second, Persona, was off-the-scale…
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More Cormoran(t) than Seagull
Where The Three Sisters feels like a novel to me, The Seagull reads like a lyrical poem, its unspoken words and unacted actions carrying more weight than the dialogue itself. When it premiered in St. Petersburg in 1896, Chekhov slipped out during the second act—apparently, the performance was so dire it lost all the meaning…
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