The Wharton One-Acts

Richard S. Burdick's Wharton One-Acts perform through September 2 in Shakespeare & Company's intimate Wharton Theatre. The bill includes 3:30 and 8:00pm performances of Oh! Mr. Chekhov! (derived in part from incidents in The Undiscovered Chekhov translated by Peter Considine) and The View Beyond (derived from Mrs. Manstey's View and The Fullness of Life by Edith Wharton). For tickets and information: (413) 637-3353 or www.shakespeare.org or email us at boxoffice@shakespeare.org



Pictured: Antonia Freeland as artist Zhenya Petrovna searching for inspiration in
Oh! Mr. Chekhov!

Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two

 


Pictured: Luke Stanhope as aspiring writer Alexei Markovitch reading his latest work-in-progress in
Oh! Mr. Chekhov!


Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two

 


Pictured: Diane Prusha (left) re-discovering her sight as Mrs. Manstey with Judith McSpadden as the Spirit of Life in
The View Beyond

Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two

 


Pictured: Artist Zhenya Petrovna (Antonia Freeland) reading some of her own work to a stunned Alexei Markovitch (Luke Stanhope) in
Oh! Mr. Chekhov!



Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two

 


Pictured: Antonia Freeland as artist Zhenya Petrovna in
Oh! Mr. Chekhov!


Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two

 


Pictured: Olya Ivanofski (Antonia Freeland) listens to Alexei Markovitch's (Luke Stanhope) overtures of love in
Oh! Mr. Chekhov!



Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two

 


Antonia Freeland as Olya Ivanofski in a more demure moment in
Oh! Mr. Chekhov!




Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two

 


Pictured: Antonia Freeland as refined Zoe Andreyvitch in
Oh! Mr. Chekhov!




Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two

 


Luke Stanhope as professor and aspiring writer Alexei Markovitch in Oh! Mr. Chekhov!




Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two

 


Antonia Freeland as angst-ridden artist Zhenya Petrovna in Oh! Mr. Chekhov!


Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two

 



Zhenya Petrovna (Antonia Freeland) has Alexei Markovitch (Luke Stanhope) right where she wants him in Oh! Mr. Chekhov!



Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two

 


Pictured: Mrs. Manstey (Diane Pursha) in her after-life in
Oh! Mr. Chekhov!




Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two

 


The sightless Mrs. Manstey (Diane Prusha) hears that her "view" will be walled up by new landlord Olga Sampson (Antonia Freeland) in The View Beyond



Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two

 


Mrs. Manstey (Diane Prusha) meets her Perfect Man (Luke Stanhope) in her after-life in The View Beyond




Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two


Mrs. Manstey (Diane Prusha) meets her Perfect Man (Luke Stanhope) in her after-life in The View Beyond




Photo: Kevin Sprague, Studio Two