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tabithare's review against another edition
I only read Three Sisters sorry but it was wonderful. I loooove Chekhov and I love Sarah Ruhl!
artemiscat's review against another edition
Three Sisters is great but I’m here for Orlando.
ashleysmilne's review against another edition
5.0
truly cannot believe how astonishingly good these are
meg_thebrave's review against another edition
3.0
So I just read the Chekhov play and not the Woolf play. Chekhov is not my favorite, just to be honest, but I could admire the way Chekhov worked with a theme of illusion and unfulfilled dreams, and realizing what you think you want is not always that great. Definitely worth reading, and I am very excited to work on the play in the fall. I could see a lot of interesting options for staging and characterization, so I'm excited to see that take shape.
lirwin3's review against another edition
5.0
I read just the Woolf play - my favorite playwright writing an adaptation of my favorite writer, what could be better? It reminded me so much of “Faustus” and “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” with an androgynous twist. I love what Sarah Ruhl did with one of my favorite novels! Would like to produce and/or see this in production someday :)
nicolecraswell's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 Stars
Okay so the "finished" is technically a lie... I only read Orlando, but that's really all I intended to read going in so it's chill. I read this for a class after reading the original novel. I can only imagine just how difficult this must have been to adapt. About 90% of the novel is internal monologue, so much so that it's actually really difficult to find where the plot points are. This was impressively done. There was a surprising amount of dialogue taken directly from the book and through the conversations and back and forth between Orlando and the Chorus, a lot of the internal monologue was able to be kept in.
This was definitely easier to follow than the book but it lacked a great deal of the introspection and examination of what gender means in the social contexts of whatever time Orlando was in at the moment (which was probably the most interesting part of the book). Of course this is understandable considering the format change. The progression of time also felt more direct and linear in the play version, like we were just speeding through time, whereas in the novel it felt very fluid and almost like time was passing in the background but just not able to touch Orlando.
Okay so the "finished" is technically a lie... I only read Orlando, but that's really all I intended to read going in so it's chill. I read this for a class after reading the original novel. I can only imagine just how difficult this must have been to adapt. About 90% of the novel is internal monologue, so much so that it's actually really difficult to find where the plot points are. This was impressively done. There was a surprising amount of dialogue taken directly from the book and through the conversations and back and forth between Orlando and the Chorus, a lot of the internal monologue was able to be kept in.
This was definitely easier to follow than the book but it lacked a great deal of the introspection and examination of what gender means in the social contexts of whatever time Orlando was in at the moment (which was probably the most interesting part of the book). Of course this is understandable considering the format change. The progression of time also felt more direct and linear in the play version, like we were just speeding through time, whereas in the novel it felt very fluid and almost like time was passing in the background but just not able to touch Orlando.
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