🎭 RobertFalls The Cherry Orchard at the GoodmanTheatre is 'clear-eyed, funny, and just this side of terrifying.' | ✍️ kerryreid
, which he held for 35 years, last fall. The upcoming 2023-24 season, which was just announced, is the first she’s assembled as artistic director.)
Formerly rich people losing their ill-gotten gains and having to make their way in the world like other schlubs may not seem like a particularly tragic proposition. But the genius of Chekhov is that he knows humans can’t exist without dreams. The trick is figuring out where the line is between a dream and a delusion. And Falls’s production dances back and forth on that line with surefooted brio.
Through it all, Gayev and Lyubov ignore the obvious ticking time bomb: the impending auction of the estate. They clutch at straws. Perhaps a great-aunt who’s never had much use for them will give money? Maybe Gayev can scrounge up a promissory note? Maybe Anya will give up Trofimov and choose a rich suitor?
Is she so different from Americans in the 21st century, though? We live in a country where individual generosity exists in people who flinch in horror at the thought of “those people” gaining more of a toehold on the economic ladder. Idealizing a past that never was in the name of protecting white-innocence narratives is a major national pastime.
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