Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Unveiling Alley Theatre’s Little Comedies: An Experiment in Theatrical Fusion
I am pretty sure that Anton Chekhov never imagined an entire evening of five of his short plays, some which he subtitled ‘a joke’ or ‘a vaudeville.’ He did not write them to make up an evening.
Friday, September 1, 2023
Uncle Vanya: Translating with the Pevears
Sometime around 2003, I picked up a copy of what I had known as The Devils, but here had the title of Demons. This was the first translation I read by the translating team (and married couple), Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Almost immediately I ‘heard’ the voice of another Dostoevsky, one totally human, subtle, alive, and at times very funny.
