This movie rocks. Watched it on Saturday night. Everyone is great - Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Brooke Smith (the 'Mr.-I've-Got-Your-Dog' Girl from 'Silence of the Lambs'), Lynn Cohen, Larry Pine. It's David Mamet's adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, shot at the New Amsterdam around '94. Good Lord, it already looks like a period piece and it's only 13-14 years old.
Anyone says Americans can't do Chekhov, steer 'em to this one.
About Me
- David Johnston
- David Johnston’s plays have been performed and read at the New Group, Moving Arts, Rude Guerrilla, the Neighborhood Playhouse, Henry Street Settlement, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. He was named one of Time Out’s Playwrights to Watch. Recent regional productions include The George Place at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre. New York productions: with Blue Coyote Theater Group, Conversations on Russian Literature Plus Three More Plays, a new adaptation of The Oresteia, Busted Jesus Comix (GLAAD nominee 2005), and A Bush Carol, or George Dubya and the Xmas of Evil. With director Kevin Newbury, Candy & Dorothy (GLAAD winner, 2006) and The Eumenides. Publications: The Eumenides, (Playing With Canons, published by New York Theatre Experience, Inc.) Leaving Tangier , (Samuel French, produced by Blue Coyote). Awards include Theater Oxford, Turnip Festival, Playwright Residency at the University of Cincinnati, Berrilla Kerr Foundation Grant, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and the Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation. Education: College of William and Mary, Circle in the Square. Member: Actors Equity, Dramatists Guild, Charles Maryan's Playwrights/Directors Workshop.
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