Word: andreyev
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Katerina. This latest addition to the programs of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre is further justification for the rediscovery of Alia Nazimova. It is more. Leonid Andreyev's play has been left behind by changing social codes but it retains a turbulent glow which shines through its drenching melancholy...
...which sends her out, in spite of a reconciliation, to defy him. In the playwright's mind she sinks lower and lower. That, however, is against a background of Victorian moral standards. What would happen to Katerina in real life in 1929 would make an entirely different play. Andreyev deals with the Russia of before the War. That Russia is gone, so much of his play vanishes...
...workers - that was what the Governor (I. V. Kochalov) did not like to remember. The growth of his fear, of the indignation of the people, and the hatred toward him developing for personal reasons in the minds of a governess and a scab, were originally thought out by Leonid Andreyev, Russia's great, mad dramatist and story writer. Director A. Protozanov seems to feel with Andreyev that psychology is, in the long run, more important to art than politics. Shots - the Emperor's aide-de-camp taking a dose of salts; a statue that loses its nose...
...Waltz of the Dogs. A boast quite as confident if more sensible than that which Author e. e. cummings attached to the program of him (TIME, April 30) is used to introduce this posthumous play by Leonid Andreyev. "This is not a casual play," wrote Author Andreyev; "The Waltz of the Dogs represents the most hidden cruel meaning of tragedy which renounces the meaning and reason of human existence. . . . This is a responsible work and should be produced with deliberate courage...
...next morning-Feb. 13-I got my first number of your TIME. For the first time in my life I saw the pictured face of Eugene O'Neill: on my writing table was a . . . portrait of Andreyev. I placed my hand over the lower part of O'Neill's face, and our Leonid's eyes confronted me, his fine brow and wave of dark hair (tidier, though). As to my hopeful expectation regarding TIME it is more than satisfied...