The American Sports Bazaar Theater Company launched the "Three Stations" adapted from Chekhov's masterpiece "Three Sisters", the play introduces the type of physical theater. Can not accurately locate the play, is a drama at the same time a large number of song and dance ingredients, is a song and dance drama and a large number of dialogues of the detailed emotional pulse to promote the tragedy and a large number of witty and humorous dialogues of the exaggerated physical action, in the songs and dances, quarrels and laughter in the completion of a scene of sadness, joy and happiness, and the ups and downs of life, the daily banter in the profound philosophical thinking about life, cones the human heart in the depths of the heart, but then instantly jumped away from a hilarious scene, laughter with tears, sadness and laughter. The scene, laughing with tears, sad but not hurt.
The image of the three sisters has its own characteristics, stoic bear the big sister, proud and elegant second sister, full of beautiful aspirations of the little sister, the other roles have been interpreted image in place, bearing the family's high hopes but always unable to do the real themselves, the brother, tastes vulgar but has been in the whole family of the presence of the siblings of the brush wildly, a few were pursued by the officers of the three sisters from the clothes, body, posture, accessories, and even the Tiny little expressions all show the character and psychology of this role, the whole play three sisters is the main character, but each role is very spot on. After the end of the play, all the actors and actresses in plain clothes and audience interaction, only to find that the contrast with the character image of the play is very large, showing the actor's skills.
The stage design, props, and positioning are very clever. Four tables, seven or eight chairs, a fireplace and lightweight furniture and accessories make up all the props on stage. The whole play scene transition did not turn off the lights and pull the curtain, the actors directly end of the table to walk, and then enter the next scene. The stage backdrop is directly a black cloth, the overall black and grey tones are mainly, is it trying to reflect the color of realism? If so, it did do that. The only vibrant color is the vulgar and realistic sister-in-law, with her soft green skirt and belt and pink stockings, which starts out as vulgar and representative of small-town level aesthetics mocked by the whole family, but later leads a life of brocade as she hooks up with her husband's boss, while the three sisters, who boast of being from the elegance of Moscow, end up in a tragedy of their relationships and their lives, which is a huge irony.
There is a great deal of symbolism throughout the play. Throughout the play, "I want to go back to Moscow", Moscow has become a symbol of a beautiful childhood and a beautiful life in the hearts of the sisters. An example given by the youngest sister, who opens the cage, but the bird in the cage won't fly away because it's used to melons and cups of water, symbolizes her own state of mind and situation. There is also the only brother in the family who keeps a book in his hand all the time because he has lived such a depressing life since he was brought up with high expectations from the whole family to become a professor. There are also the picture frames on the fireplace and the clocks left behind by her mother, all of which are a reminder of the good old days. What impressed me the most is that the three sisters and three cups of tea in the opening scene echoed the three sisters and three cups of tea in the closing scene, and at the end, the three cups of tea and three books formed the shape of a house, only the time and space has changed, and the state of mind has been very different after experiencing too many things. In the interaction, the director said, this is a symbol of their aspirations but can never go back to Moscow, and in my opinion, there are three sisters experienced this period of life after the sadness and happiness of the enlightenment and independence, do not put the hope of life on the man or brother, to build their own home, belong to their own "Moscow".
The most painful part of watching "Three Stations" is the English dialog, which is in the process of watching the play, you have to keep looking at the actors while reading the subtitles, and there are a lot of cultural differences that you don't get where the punchline is, and sometimes you miss out on the facial expressions of the actors when reading the lines, and sometimes you only pay attention to the actor's emotions but you don't know what he's talking about, which makes the play a little bit less fluent. However, the whole drama did not have any feeling of jumping out of the movie. If I have to say the shortcomings, is that some of the props, details and clues that appear in the front, I thought that the back will be accounted for, but it does not go away, from another perspective also ensures that the main line is very clear, does not give rise to branches, a very good scene of the play .