According to the press materials, ROTOR Productions' In This Is The End of Sleeping is based on the unfinished first work of Chekhov, but it's difficult to tell that from the show itself. The company has replaced the image of a fin de siecle Russian estate with a "house" that consists of a rectangular prism of unpainted wood. It has scrapped the luscious period costumes of the declining aristocracy in favor of heavily ironic T-shirts from Urban Outfitters, and clips of every stage image are fed into live video installations while remixed '80s music blares in the background. Whereas Chekhov's characters range widely in age and class, all of the cast members are young and attractive. The res[...]