Footlight tanssikoulu5/29/2023 Even when a pandemic makes things difficult, we need to learn to appreciate the simple things in life so that when the time comes to venture out in the world again, we are ready and eager to have a life again.Īssistant Stage Manager & Props - Eileen MoynihanĪssistant Lighting Designer - Olivia Sederlund We could all use a little humor about now, and in the hands of Durang, the absurd becomes hilarious, and oh-so relatable to everyone at some point in our lives.Īs Sonia discovers, it’s never too late to take control of your life and really live. In the end, what really matters… what is most important… is revealed to them.Īmerican playwright Christopher Durang won a best play Tony Award for this show, which mines the many themes of Anton Chekhov’s plays, including regret, envy, unrequited love, narcissism, lack of romance and the possible loss of an ancestral family home and yet finds unexpected comedy. They went through all the emotional swings from elation to depression, excitement to frustration, tranquility to boredom. At times I couldn’t help but think of the social isolation that Vanya and Sonia, two of our main characters in Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike endured for years. After two full years of varying degrees of social isolation, staying out until 10pm for rehearsal, and interacting with groups of people, was sometimes challenging, but in the end, so rewarding. It was not easy coming back to such a social and intimate experience as mounting a production.
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