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By SUSAN GOODWIN
Staff Writer
USC *? In order to truly "get"
Bugs Bunny cartoons, everyone has
to grow up a little. Anton
Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard"
is no different.
"I read this play first when I was
an undergraduate, and I thought,
'I'll probably be able to do this
when I'm 50,'" director Ann
Dreher said. "Well, I'll be 50 in
February."
With this theory in mind, the
theater department is performing
Chekhov's challenging play. And
one of the greatest problems
they've found is trying to achieve
the writer's intentions.
"There are a lot of things about
Chekhov that we don't understand,"
said Steve Carpenter, a theater
graduate student who plays the
character Trofimov. "But it's our
duty to try and portray them."
The historical context of the
play, which is written and set in
Russia at the turn of the century,
helps with this mind reading,
according to Steven Hart, a theater
professor who served as the play's
dramaturg, or researcher.
"The fact is that Chekhov stood
in the middle of a world that was
in a queer and inevitable collapse
and sort of described the day-today
symptoms," Hart said.
Such, a form doesn't exactly
make for an acton-packed adventure,
eyen though the play deals
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Russian and Polish literature professor.
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other elements of the play." m
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the production remained the same.
What Chekhov said, went.
"One character has a dog, so we tu
had to audition several dogs,"
Dreher said. "Everything we did, ^
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have wanted it that way. He said, ac
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involved with the show succeeded
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veyed the mood and the relationships
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Chekhov intended," Nelson said,
"The sets are minimalistic. This is ^
exacdy what Chekhov would have
wanted."
While the play has gone without
the problems that plague many other
shows, one unusual flaw has surfaced.
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have is with the curtain call,"
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ill from before, and I was supped
to wait until the lights came
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le said. "But I hadn't read the
)tes. So, I went out. The lights *
ime up, and I was the only one
it there. It was kind of embarrasses
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As one of the two undergradues
in the show, McClendon also
id to deal with his underage stas.
"I was very uncomfortable at
rst because of the age difference,"
i said. "But everyone pretty much
:cepted me. They had the same
^als I did, which was to make this
good show."
If Nelson's involvement is any
idication, the run has already been
productive one. She spoke at a
miposium held on the play this Si
ast week and attended a perforlance
with area Russians in the
ussian Club. I
With five performances left, at 8
m. tonight through Saturday and
p.m. Sunday in Drayton Hall, j
reher insists the material is so c
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earn. <
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our success and look forward to
another year of increasing attendance."
Deborah Slice, the zoo's press
contact, said the zoo's success can
be attributed mainly to its "good
marketing program and a really
good advertising campaign."
Riverbanks has been running a
series of commercials, including
the "Wild Thing" commercial that
ran in 1991 and 1992 and the
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commercial that has run since
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