Kanata Theatre scores high with Vania and Sonia and Masha and Spike
One of the pleasures of Kanata Theatre’s latest offering is its success in delivering a succession of plausible, fully-realized characters.
Furthermore director Jim Holmes and his cast are attentive to the nuances, both comic and wistful, of Christopher Durang’s amusing yet curiously heartfelt comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
To be sure, these characters inhabit their own, slightly skewed universe while also providing a conduit for Durang’s own wry reflections on the real world. What’s more, the plays of Anton Chekhov crop up as reference points in this 2012 script — even though you need to know nothing about his works to enjoy what’s happening on the stage of Kanata’s Ron Maslin Playhouse. …