Arcola, LondonChekhov's play loses the definitive article in its title, and has some cuts (demanded by the censor before its 1896 premiere) restored in this new version by Charlotte Pyke, John Kerr and Joseph Blatchley. But apart from a ravishingly quiet and centred performance by Geraldine James as the insecure, ageing actress Arkadina, who clings blindly to her lover, the writer Trigorin, while casually crushing al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PM on June 21, 2011