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FINE performances in the rest of the cast match the skill in the title roles. Paul Redford is brilliant as Andrey Prozorov, the brother and owner of the estate, whose dream of becoming a university professor is frustrated by a tragic marriage to the bourgeois Natasha (Grace Shohet). Redford skillfully makes the transition from idealistic brother to alienated bitter council member. He epitomizes Andrey's awkwardness in his shuffling, hesitant walk and bursts of speech. And Shohet is deliciously annoying as the pushy, vulgar Natasha, who does nothing but drool--loudly--about her children...
...were going for the big win," said Andrey unbar yesterday, "and any scores of theirs are attributable to our over-anxiousness and cagerness for the steal...
...ANDREY FILIPOWICZ
...grandfather). Solzhenitsyn's principal literary creation (and expository device) is a staff colonel named Verotyntsev, who has license to follow the battle to frontline trenches as an observer and sometimes as tactical hero. Verotyntsev has fictional possibilities. He combines a kind of detached professional elegance that suggests Prince Andrey Bolkonsky in Tolstoy's War and Peace with that passion for bearing truthful witness at all costs that has been the center of Solzhenitsyn's own career as a writer. In August 1914, though, Verotyntsev is too busy carrying messages around the battlefield (and from the author...
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...