5/9/2023 0 Comments Uncle vanya paul schmidt![]() ![]() ![]() "People are freaks, you know? You spend all your time with them, before you know it you're a freak yourself." (Act one) Nice echo to Dorothea and Casaubon in Middlemarch, too, btw. (Although I somewhat suspect the translator of politically charging it.) Some remarkably prophetic stuff on the environment here, by the way. I liked this more, and I wonder if maybe it's just because I'm getting a tiny bit more used to Chekhov I understand his sortof idiosyncratic use of anguished, expository soliloquy better, and his weird sense of humor, and his quiet form of depression. Which Hedda Gabler may actually have done, in some small way. It's specifically about this huge transition from old to modern Russian culture, right? (I hope so.) An elegy for the old way, and a "Here we go" for the new. I'm just coming off Ibsen, who's sorta punch-you-in-the-face powerful, so I was underwhelmed a bit too, but I think it's a really elegant, subtle play with a lot going on. ![]()
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