Review: The Nina Variations by Steven Dietz, Gobotrick Theatre Productions

by Michael Meigs
Published on November 07, 2008

Dietz's Treplev and Nina rise and bank through the imagined world of the play like paragliders following thermals over a familiar landscape, giving us new views and unexpected possibilities.

Two persons, forty brief scenes, a scant hour and twenty minutes in a playing space about the size of a writer’s study – this was the most deeply satisfying theatrical experience I’ve had since beginning my exploration of Austin theatre last year.The Nina Variations is a theatre-maker’s dream, crafted by Stephen Dietz from the material of Chekhov’s The Seagull.  Coincidentally, last year’s production of that play by Broken String Players at the Off Center was my first evening …

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