Off-Broadway Review: THE REAL IVANOV (Initiative Productions / New York)

IVANOV GETS THE SHORT END Chekhov’s despair survives the cuts, but the production struggles to connect the pieces It is difficult to make depression theatrically vivid when its essential symptoms are misery, inertia, and the absence of purpose rather than anything visually dramatic. That is the particular challenge of Chekhov’s Ivanov, and I have already… The post Off-Broadway Review: THE REAL…