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DIRECTOR'S NOTE
Welcome to Broken Leg Theatre’s production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike! Christopher Durang’s Tony Award-winning comedy is a hilarious and heartfelt tribute to family, nostalgia, and the ever-present tension between past and future.
At its core, this play is about change—how we resist it, how we long for it, and how, despite everything, it finds us anyway. Set in a quiet Pennsylvania home filled with echoes of Chekhov, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike gives us characters who are both larger-than-life and deeply relatable. They wrestle with lost dreams, sibling rivalries, and the fear of growing irrelevant, all while trying to navigate the absurdities of modern life (with a costume party and a manchild millennial thrown into the mix).
One of the things I love most about this play is its balance of humor and poignancy. Durang gives us big laughs, but he also sneaks in moments of quiet truth—the kind that make us reflect on our own lives, our regrets, and the people we hold dear.
I hope this production makes you laugh, makes you think, and maybe even makes you call your siblings when you get home. Thank you for being here and supporting live theater—we couldn’t do it without you.
Enjoy the show!
Shanan Harrell
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