I'm bored!"; "She's so bored she's just staggering around"; "God, I really am dying of boredom"; "You know why you and I are such good friends, Vanya? Because we're both such boring, tedious people." So say Schreck's versions of the characters thrust together on the country estate...
It's got major names (Steve Carell is carrying the autumn roses and the gun), a major stage at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont, and a palpably earnest desire to excavate the story's humanity. And it is, unhappily, an example of how all these things can fail to cohere into something powerful.
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