The Black Monk
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 4, 2008
Closed Jan 3, 2009
Opened Dec 4, 2008
Closed Jan 3, 2009
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http://www.southarkstage.org
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A stunning new musical inspired by Anton Chekhov's story, The Black Monk, follows the life of a gifted young artist (Elon Rutberg). After five years at school in Moscow, Andrei returns home to his adopted father Igor (Scott Robertson) and childhood love Tanya (Sara Ziegler). As his artistic talent blossoms, will Andrei be able to hold on to love, family, and his sanity or will the power of the mysterious Black Monk (Austin Pendleton) drive him into the unknown?
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Picture a musical about a man so obsessed with an artistic need to express himself on canvases that he has little time for the people in his life -- in particular the woman with whom he is supposedly in love. You've focused on Sunday in the Park With George, haven't you? Well, so has playwright Wendy Kesselman, perhaps without realizing it, in her extremely disappointing chamber musical The Black Monk, at Theatre Row's Samuel Beckett Theatre.
Indeed, this work, loosely adapted from Anton Chekhov's 1894 short story, would have been best left in her own chamber. Very little about the show, including the direction of Kevin Newbury or the performances of a cast led by Austin Pendleton, is par[...]