Review: The Cherry Orchard at The Blue Theater

Courtesy Austinist  Fri, 11/20/2009 - 1:45pm

Babs-George-Ranyevskaya.jpg Writing a review of Breaking String ’s production of The Cherry Orchard leaves one with a predicament familiar to so many of Chekhov’s characters—it’s hard to know how to make a go of it.

It’s the word processing equivalent of stammering—repeatedly typing then deleting, agonizing over semantics.

The final product might seem a bit spare, but not from laziness or lack of thought—in fact, it’s hard to think of much besides this production...



 

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