Lot 28 at Sotheby’s is a 21-inch-tall bronze Tyche, late Hellenistic or Roman, about first century B.C. to 1st century A.D. She is standing, with a crownlike diadem resting on top of her curly hair.
The detective painstakingly collected clues to piece together what happened that tragic night.
While this production, starring a softly radiant Kate Burton as the mercurial Madame Ranevskaya, does place a subtle emphasis on the tragedy in her past — the death of her young son some five years before the play begins — the teddy bear was a bit of a red herring, as it were. Mr. Martin’s “Cherry Orchard,” presented in a clean new adaptation by the playwright Richard Nelson, is brisk, unfussily funny and steeped in just enough emotion to give it a gloss of tender feeling without drowning it in teardrops.
The standing Shoki holds with his left hand an oni on his leg.
