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Sanctuary's Russian Sketches

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19871012
Author:Joe Brown

Sanctuary Theatre, the young Adams-Morgan troupe that devotes itself to presenting transcultural theater, opens its fourth season with a Russian accent. "An Evening With Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky" is an unusual program of four short plays, translated and adapted by Polish writer Thaddeus Wittlin, a Washington resident.

Originally written as short stories, the Chekhov sketches provide the evening's more theatrically traditional moments, and Wittlin successfully maintains Chekhov's dry, detached humor. In "The Avenger," an overworked cuckold painstakingly deliberates his revenge, but his ...

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