Word: afinogenov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Playwright Afinogenov was in disgrace in 1937, but returned to favor two years later. He was killed in the defense of Moscow in November...
Last night's American premiers of Afinogenov's "Mashenka" afforded the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Radcliffe Idler an ample opportunity to experiment with a new play, and to handle it as they saw fit. It was an opportunity that wasn't wasted, either, for the production, unhampered by a mass of traditional forms of presentation, was staged with an originality and restraint that merit commendation for everyone connected with...
...finogenov's play does not concern itself much with plot. Instead, it concentrates on a series of character sketches, with a visible Chekhov influence, and winds up as a decidedly unproletarian drama--with plenty of bourgeois emotions and sentimentality to contend with. Afinogenov isn't much as a Soviet propagandist; he does much better as a playwright...
...theater audience sat clapping hands. The audience had stood while a phonograph played God Save the King (sometimes called America) and the Internationale, then watched a play called Distant Point by a Russian author named Alexander Afinogenov. The play was about a Red Army general, dying of cancer of the lung, talking to villagers in Siberia, persuading them that they must prepare themselves for invasion...
Chistov, a factory worker, is mastering the art of sniping; Michurin, a lathe operator, has mastered the heavy machine gun and can riddle stationary or moving targets by day or night; Afinogenov, a bookkeeper, can toss a hand grenade 40 yards. Workmen of the Savin factory practice bayonet drills every day after hours. Bernadsky, a professor at the Herzen Institute, practices with rifle and hand grenade along with the rest of the staff. In the textile mills, Weaver Nikitina, Spinner Vasileyeva, Winder Zhdanova and Piecer Isayeva are busy teaching their fellow workers first...
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