![]() ![]() And then go, ‘OK, gotta do it again.’ I haven’t done a role this emotionally difficult in, I don’t know … It’s just terrible. So frankly, every night, I’m a little devastated. And it’s a woman who starts the play in a place of extreme loss - son, husband, lover - and it only gets worse. ![]() There isn’t a moment where she’s not feeling and empathetic to somebody, or some situation. On the other hand … Amy Morton, who played “Lovey” Ranevskaya in the 2004 Steppenwolf “Cherry Orchard”: “For me it’s the complete opposite. She just devastates anyone in her path, so there’s great fun in that.” What Arkadina says is at the expense of everyone around her, and it makes a big difference in terms of the way I feel when I walk out the door. With (Chekhov) the opposite happens: I leave it all on the stage. What’s it like for an actor to inhabit a Chekhovian universe eight times a week? Susan Hart, who portrayed Arkadina in the 2004 Writers Theatre “Seagull”: “I did Michael Frayn’s ‘Benefactors,’ playing a woman who absolutely showed no emotion at all, and I’d find myself bursting into tears in the car because I had so much penned up inside me. ![]()
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