BWW Review: UNCLE VANYA (Mermaids Cast)November 12, 2015Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) wrote plays more character-heavy than plot-heavy, with unhappy Russians bemoaning their past and current plights. As a result, productions must be cast with actors who understand internal character motivation and insights (or lack thereof). Antaeus' latest production of a Chekhov play is "Uncle Vanya," (from 1898), in a West Coast premiere of the 2012 translation by esteemed American playwright Annie Baker, double cast as always (this one is The Mermaids).
BWW Review: THE MONEY FI$HNovember 12, 2015John Cox is a definite "fish-out-of-water." A natural actor (in his late-thirties, I imagine), average-looking, with an average-build, who has eschewed an acting career to continuing working his blue-collar interests, he has written and stars in an absorbing 85-minute intimate history of his three years on a fishing boat in Alaska's Bering Sea, out of the port of Dutch Harbor.