Word: andrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play has fourteen speaking parts. Of these only the two lieutenants Fedotik and Rode are minor (Kahn, in a felicitous touch, has given Fedotik a bit of extra business with his camera at the end of the first act, when Natasha and Andrey kiss). This means that there are twelve vitally important roles, with the subtlest web of interactions...
...Cariou is first-rate as the sisters' brother Andrey, who loses control of the household to his adulterous wife. He gives up his dream of becoming a famous university professor, and contents himself with being secretary to his wife's lover on the local county agriculture committee--a post so petty that he has to bolster his pride by berating a subordinate for not addressing him a "Your Honor," and--like Abe Fortas--seek solace in going off by himself to play the violin. Cariou makes him genuine, well-meaning, and pathetic; and I'd swear he really puts...
Roberta Maxwell misses little in her portrayal of Andrey's fiancee and, later, cuckolding wife Natasha, a vile and vulgar creature who ends up holding all the reins, and who insists on pretentiously flaunting her inadequate knowledge of French. Few scenes in all drama are as chillingly cruel as the one in which Natasha upbrades the loyal octogenarian nanny Anfisa and proceeds to advocate kicking her out because the old woman can't work enough, both does not convey sufficient age. (It occurs to me that director Kahn might have improved his production by switching the roles of Misses Maxwell...