), who expresses irritation when the social outcast Solyony , among others, tells her he's in love with her. "Does everyone think I have a golden pussy or something?" she snaps at him. Irina is also pursued by her good friend Tuzenbach , who has to keep denying that he's gay. She doesn't reciprocate his feelings, in any case. "I just want to marry someone I'm in love with, okay?" she tells him. "I don't feel like that's such a BFD.
And so it goes, with the broadly satirical humor lacking the necessary wit to justify this send-up's existence. You'll have to decide for yourself if you think it's amusing when the miserably unhappy Olga assures the elderly servant Anfisa , "You are an old bitch. But you're my old bitch!" Or when she breaks into tears when someone plays Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" on the piano.