And she can be found at the end of many scenes victoriously plucking splinters of scenery from her teeth.īut don’t count out Arkadina’s son, Konstantin (Ryan O’Nan), a fledgling writer whose Oedipal jealousy takes the form of hyperkinetic furniture rearrangement. Wiest, who won an Oscar playing a similarly self-dramatizing actress in Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway,” has the edge going in. Most of the characters in the bizarrely boisterous revival that opened on Thursday night at the Classic Stage Company, directed by Viacheslav Dolgachev and starring Dianne Wiest, appear to be participating in what might be called an act-off, a sort of provincial “Russian Idol” for thespians. There’s more than one ham in residence on the country estate where Madame Arkadina, the emotive stage diva from Chekhov’s “Seagull,” flamboyantly spends her down time.
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