Eve Novick

Under paced, under miked, under acted. 50 minutes could have been cut from the production just from the dead space where no one was talking. Steve Carrell and Alfred Molina were very good, although Carrell's comic timing was wasted in the general atmosphere of understatement. The other actors were miscast. The director must have thought, Chekhov equals slow, somber and heavy. And that's what we got.