by Anton Chekhov translated by Carol Rocamora directed
by Reid Davis
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Anton
Chekhov wrote Three Sisters while in medical exile from Moscow and his
theatre company in 1900. I imagine him dreaming of love, dreaming of actors,
dreaming of the future. His people wonder aloud if anyone will remember
them in 200 years. Photos are snapped, projecting a moment in the future
when the subject no longer exists but the photo does. Can memory survive
the subject? Longing for a better tomorrow and longing to be remembered,
the characters see the present pass by them. They, like us, crash daily.
And they, like us, sometimes arise�shaken but definitely alive. The characters
hurl themselves at the unknowable future, at us. Is it possible they conjure
us, ghosts of the future, not knowing but struggling to remember them?
This most millennial of plays questions memory, desire and reality itself�not
just for its characters, but for its listeners, struggling to hold onto
what matters as we too are hurled into the unknowable future.
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Katie
Bales as Olga
Maria
Candelaria as Irina
Beth Donohue as Masha
Amanda Duarte as Natasha
Jeff Elam as Kulygin
Todd Parmley* as Andrei
Robert Parsons* as Tuzenbach
Katja Rivera* as Anfisa & Rode
Yuval Sharon as Ferapont & Fedotik
Phil Stockton* as Vershinin
Gene Thompson as Chebutykin
Danny Wolohan as Solyoni
*appears courtesy
of Actors' Equity Association
Reid
Davis, director
Yuval Sharon, assistant
director
Patrick Dooley, producer
Valera
Coble, costume designer
Michael Frassinelli, set design & construction
Alex Lopez, lighting designer
Ben Lovejoy, graphic designer & photographer
Eunice Kwon, stage manager
Mary Saudargas, creative consultant
Opened: Saturday, March 4 at 8:00
Performed: Friday & Saturday & Sunday
Performed At: The
Speakeasy Theatre, 2016 7th Street, Berkeley
Closed: April 9
Kerry Reid for the
East Bay Express Online
Michael Scott Moore for the SF
Weekly
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