The Observer Review of the Seagull
Full article here.
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In typical Chekhovian fashion, Konstantin is someone who tries to commit suicide twice-the first time as farce, the second as tragedy. Mackenzie Crook-hitherto known to me only as the ridiculously ambitious Gareth, the assistant to the manager, in the BBC version of The Office-is a revelation in the role. The Byronic Mr. Crook, resisting the temptation to play his damaged Konstantin as a hysterical neurotic on the verge of a nervous breakdown, makes his contemptuous fury and resentment all the more powerful for seeming insistently rational behind blazing, hurt eyes.
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In typical Chekhovian fashion, Konstantin is someone who tries to commit suicide twice-the first time as farce, the second as tragedy. Mackenzie Crook-hitherto known to me only as the ridiculously ambitious Gareth, the assistant to the manager, in the BBC version of The Office-is a revelation in the role. The Byronic Mr. Crook, resisting the temptation to play his damaged Konstantin as a hysterical neurotic on the verge of a nervous breakdown, makes his contemptuous fury and resentment all the more powerful for seeming insistently rational behind blazing, hurt eyes.
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