Urban Vancouver

Anton Chekhov -“By The Lake”

By Plme Studio on October 25, 2007 - 8:38pm

Theater Studio Palme presents 11th Season

“By The Lake”

A part- video, part- onstage theatrical presentation based on the play “Platonov” by Anton Chekhov

November 3, 4
The Russian Community Center at 2114 West 4rth Avenue, Vancouver
Tickets yo be ordered by::604-763-1462,604-438-4363

Synopsis: “By The Lake” explores the lives of the Russian elite during the climactic years prior to the revolution. The play is actually a compilation of several of Chekhov’s works, the major one being “Platonov,” but also including episodes from “The Cherry Orchard,” “The Three Sisters,” “Uncle Vanya” and some short stories. Together these help to build a picture of the physical and psychological states of the aristocracy prior to its downfall and to show the true theatrical mastery of Anton Chekhov.

Script and Direction- Oleg Palme, Lilya Akhatchinskaya
Video Operator- Michael Khodakovskii
Video Montage- Oleg Solodchenko
Audio Operator- Alis Soiourova
Light Operator- Egor Revenko
Video/Stage Coordination- Alexander Puga
Costumes- Larisa Bushmina
Hair- Olga Lashkova
Make-up- Elena Akhatchinskaya
Director’s Aide- Arseniy Lashkov
CAST
Platonov- Eugene Graboviy
Anna Petrovna- Olesya Romashka
Triletskiy- Andrei Akhatchinskiy
Voinitsev- Maksim Bashmakov

Dogeaters at Studio 58 Langara until Saturday - a very brief review

By Roland Tanglao on October 12, 2007 - 12:29am

Dogeaters (a play based on a famous Filipino novel by Jessica Hagedorn) at Langara's fantastic Studio 58 is a must see if you are interested at all in the Philippines. And a bargain at less than $20! The play is unsettling, funny, melodramatic, corny, religious, profane, profound, and sacrilegious, and shows the seamy, corrupt side of the Filipino style of religion, military, politics, and nepotism. In short it mirrors my relationship to my Filipino heritage :-) And the flashbacks and parallels to Benigno Aquino and his life are uncanny and chilling.

Quibbles: accents were off, in particular the frequent mis-pronunciation of "lang" and "di ba" was grating. C'mon there are over 50,000 Canadians of Filipino heritage in Metro Vancouver, could we not have had at least one Filipino actor who could do the accent perfectly? Please? Next time?