Directed by Melissa Schick
The family estate is in chaos ever since the arrival of Professor Serebryakov and his beautiful and
utterly bored young wife, Yelena. The whole family has fallen under their spell, becoming fraught with
self-analysis and pining for opportunities lost. Everyone eats rich food and drinks wine and meals are
served at the wrong time of day. The Professor gets up at noon and stays up late at night, waking the
servants and making his relatives attend to his gout... or is it rheumatism? The country doctor, Astrov,
has started stopping by almost every day, and Yelena can guess why. The Professor's daughter Sonya, who is
in love with Astrov, has perhaps found in Yelena the wrong person to confide in. Sonya's uncle, Vanya, has become
lazy, neglecting his work to pine for the lovely Yelena and to belittle the Professor. A former acolyte of the
Professor's, Vanya now resents Serebryakov, believing he has wasted his life in service to a fraud. With things in
such disrepair, how will this family manage to survive country life?
Friday, February 15th - 8pm
Saturday, February 16th - 8pm
Friday, February 22nd - 8pm
Saturday, February 23rd - 8pm
West Arundel Creative Arts
1788 Dorsey Road, Hanover, MD
The Rude Mechanicals 
