doodledee

Went the Guthrie on Saturday night to see their production of Chekhov's Three Sisters. In case you're not going, here's the script. In case you're not interested in reading it, I'll provide a summary:

Three sisters complain about how life sucks. Then the play ends.

Really, that's pretty much it. But even if it didn't hold my attention like I was hoping it would, it was strongly performed and most definitely worth the trip.

As a bonus, one of the people in the audience had a huge coughing fit early in the second act. It wasn't one of those dry 'wrong pipe' type coughs, either. This was a full juice, mouth open, eyes closed, lose a lung mega fit. It was startling. I felt bad for the person, but I think I laughed for 5 minutes after it ended.

Then the doom-and-gloom theme of the play hooked me again, and the moment passed.