by Ash Kotter Though I’m now very many years removed from academia, I’ve retained enough of my studies to recall that Anton Chekhov’s plays are… heavy. I mean that in the weight-bearing sense for an actor’s muscles. His dialogue is stylized, lyrical, and certainly not effortless speech, even within a world of theatrical realism. An admittedly reductive summary for this review, Chekhov shines light into the corners of the human experience we tend to associate with more years
