Chekhov: The Bear

THEATER
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2020
6:30 PM

Bedlam Theater "Do More" Virtual Benefit Reading
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Free (registration required for Zoom) (donation requested)
https://bedlam.org/benefit-reading/

Bedlam does these Zoomed readings right.  That's almost certainly because the stripped-down, unadorned style of presentation the company employs in live performance lends itself to remote performances from the actors' separate apartments, viewed on each audience member's monitor in their own apartments.  Tonight they do Chekhov one-acters, which for amazingly perceptive understated bittersweet humor cannot be bettered.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Another piece that calls for a Vodka cocktail (Vodka will be certainly be drunk by a character at some point).  Black Russian:  pour 2 oz. Vodka and 1 oz. Kalhúa into an ice-filled cocktail shaker.  Stir.  Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice.  Garnish with a barely surpressed gag at how not-very-good this cocktail is.