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Anton Chekhov can be turgid and Howard Davies is the first to admit it. Imported to direct Sydney Theatre Company's final offering this year, The Cherry Orchard, the celebrated British theatre man hopes to rip the sepia glasses off his audience's eyes and revitalise the Russian writer's 101-year-old masterpiece.
"It's [sometimes] like people playing on a collection of cellos," says Davies, 60, who is associate director of Britain's National Theatre. "All the characters are a bit mordant and sad and mournful ... It's romantic and wistful and I find that very boring. I wanted to make it about real people having a crisis."
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