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Revisionist drama has become the bane of the theater. It is merciful that Shakespeare, Chekhov and Aeschylus are not alive to view the bizarre "improvements" inflicted upon their classic works by the whims of directors like Peter Brook and Andrei Serban...
...Rumanian-born Serban, who has become the latest fad hero of the self-styled experimentalists, the text is simply a mask that must be ripped off to reveal the unconscious, irrational blood flow of the play. The dramatist is presumed unable to capture the Id of his work in words, so the director imposes a distracting new subtext that blurs, blots out or mangles the real text. In The Cherry Orchard, earlier this season, Serban altered the living space of Chekhov's drama to a kind of surrealistic all-white silo in which Mme. Ranevskaya ricocheted around without...
With Agamemnon, Serban again takes liberties that amount to license...
...playgoer were unfamiliar with the story, Serban's version might convince him that he had happened upon some weird and obscure tribal ritual...
...such moments Serban's penchant for formalized action fuses brilliantly with an actress's, and Chekhov...