Soulpepper and Brooks have chosen well with Simon Stephens’ irreverent 2017 translation, which has the characters talking like real people today and doesn’t set the action in any particular place, but does include moments in which characters directly address the audience. Together they create a convincing portrait of an indelibly messed-up extended family and its hangers-on at the country home of Peter Sorin (Oliver Dennis). It puts on display Brooks’s great talent in enabling actors to inhabit characters, relationships and environments so that what comes across to the audience is a fully realized, emotionally engulfing world, one that - in this instance - insists it’s a world we are part of, too.Īnchored by a mesmerizing performance by Paolo Santalucia as the tortured young writer Konstantin, the 11-person ensemble gives unpredictable, original, deeply felt performances. Already well into rehearsal in March 2020 when everything shut down, Soulpepper Theatre recorded the production as an audio play during the pandemic and held fast to its commitment to a full-blown staging. s oulpepper.ca or 41Īt long last, Daniel Brooks’ production of Chekhov’s great play about theatre, love and heartbreak is onstage. Until April 30 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 30 Tank House Lane. By Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Simon Stephens, directed by Daniel Brooks.
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