Hey everyone-

It’s me, your resident “nanny”- the person in the play who is hated by no one and loved by everyone (holla at ya girl). Most of the time she’s just minding her own business, knitting things and being a comfort to others. I would like to state that Marina and I have one thing in common: we like tea. But that’s about it. We stop sharing similarities after that. She is old, I am young, she is Russian, I am… not. But there are a lot of qualities in her that I admire and she seems like a pretty cool old lady to me, one I would be grateful to have around in a household filled with tension and unhappiness.

Other than those brief remarks on my character, I would like to add that one thing I found especially noteworthy in Vanya on 42nd Street, and that I thought contributed to the overall atmosphere of the film, was the constant creaking of wood and other sounds that emerged organically out of the old, abandoned theatre they were all in. This is also something that I think we can replicate onstage since… well… we will also be in a theatre. Not an abandoned one, though, hopefully… but still. I also want to reiterate what everyone has already said- the set looks amazing. I can’t wait to see it in person.

Anyway, that’s all for now. I sign off  and leave you all with some pictures of old ladies that I like.