Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh lead the Sydney Theater Company in a sparkling production of “The Present,” Andrew Upton’s free-form treatment of Anton Chekhov’s “Platonov.” The original play, an early effort written when the playwright was 21, and is fairly the shaggy dog — rambling,unfocused and stuffed with gratuitous (uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted) characters. But the spirit of Chekhovian farce... Read more »
Source: variety.com