The Yalta Game

The Yalta Game (3.0/5)

Gate Festival Friel-Gate

(Adapted by Brian Friel from Chekhov’s “The Lady & The Lapdog”)
Parade Theatre, Sydney.

20^th January 2009

Friel’s wonderfully descriptive monologues paint the scene in Yalta allowing the two illicit lovers to inhabit an almost bare stage. The Irish lilt has a nice ring; at times one feels party to a private conversation over a pint of Guinness. Excepting the start and end when the link between audience and actor was not quite there. At 50 minutes, enjoy a glass of wine beforehand, a light super afterwards and have a pleasant evening.