The Forest
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 6, 2010
Closed May 30, 2010
Opened May 6, 2010
Closed May 30, 2010
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Academy Award-winning actress Dianne Wiest returns to CSC in Alexander Ostrovsky's The Forest, adapted by Kathleen Tolan. Before Chekhov, there was Ostrovsky, Russia's first great theatrical reformer, who forged comedy and drama into a remarkably rich theatrical mix, paving the way for a generation of modern Russian playwrights. Wiest will star in this romantic romp, where the most dangerous creatures in the forest are two vagabond actors who crash a nearby estate posing as gentry. Love, lies and laughter ensue as they turn this otherwise orderly manor upside down.
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Echoes of Shakespeare and Moliere and a foreshadowing of Anton Chekhov's plays are heard and seen in Alexander Ostrovsky's The Forest, currently playing at Classic Stage Company. Given how infrequently this 19th-century playwright's work reaches New York's stages, the production is a notable one, even though a host of excellent performances never fully mask the play's ungainly tonal shifts.
The Forest centers on Raisa (Dianne Wiest), a wealthy landowner who has taken in not only Aksyusha (Lisa Joyce), her poor niece, but also Bulanov (Adam Driver), the son of a noblewoman, who is in equally dire straits. Raisa has decided the two should marry, partly out of beneficence and partly out o[...]