Breaking the Fourth Wall to Let Chekhov Out
Ben BrantleyDecember 4, 2011: Is anybody listening, or am I just talking to myself? That question lurks behind pretty much everything everyone says in Andrei Belgrader’s heartbreakingly funny production of Chekhov’s “Cherry Orchard,” which opened Sunday night in a Classic Stage Company production. People keep throwing out words like frustrated children trying to skip stones across water, only to see them sink without a splash, again and again.
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