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...dramatist, Leonid Andreyev, whose vital drama, "The Life of Man," the Dramatic Club will produce during the second week of December, is the most interesting product of contemporary Russian literature. Abandoning the older traditions that prevailed from Ostrovski to Tolstoi, and passing by the school of Tchekov, Andreyev has brought to the theatre a unique form of art, the rich possibilities of which he is still developing...
...Letter on the Theatre," published in the theatrical journal, "Maski," Andreyev illustrates his views on the theatre of the future by drawing an interesting contrast between the lives of two men of widely different ages and points of view, Benvenuto Cellini and Fried rich Nietzsche. He emphasizes the former's life of crowded events and the latter's withdrawal from such life into the silence and inactivity of the study, where the real drama of Nietzsche's life, however, lies. But, writes Andreyev--"Humbly bowing before the immutable law of action, the contemporary drama declines to represent--indeed, cannot represent...
...choosing its opening production for this year the Dramatic Club has turned to the drama of Russia, and has chosen a play. "The Life of Man", which, though widely known, has not yet been publicly produced in America. The author, Leonid Andreyev, has come into fame on the American stage as a result of his "He Who Gets Slapped" which had such a spectacular run in New York last season...
...product of the newer methods of the continental theatre, and is considered a masterpiece of expressionistic writing, giving a wide scope of interpretation to all the artists of the theatre. For several seasons it has been included in the reportoire of the Moscow Arts Theatre. In it Andreyev may be seen in a genial mood in contrast to the bitter cynicism of "He Who Gets Slapped". The play is lacking in the horror of the "Red Laugh" and is free from the idealism of the "Life of Vasile Fivey Ski", but is touched with Andreyev's typical fatalism...
...Andreyev is known as a mystic with a keen analytical power whose productions are both original and brilliant, and is said to paint contemporary Russian life with unerring strokes...