Word: andreyev
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...Neill & Andreyev...
Encouraged by the reception of "Beranger," the Dramatic Club now turned to one of the centuries most lertilo in the materials or art and especially the art of the theatre Russia. Leonid Andreyev's the "Life of Man" was the next production. Written by the author of "He Who Gets Slapped" it contained the germs of that play and was held by Andreyev to be the better of the two. Andreyev critics however have disagreed with him on that point, it was an ultramodern play and received ultramodern treatment. New York heard of this latest importation and wanted...
Since he became a member of the English Department at Smith, Professor Eliot has directed a large number of productions given by both the Workshop, which he founded, and the Senior class. The performance of "False Gods" and later of Andreyev's "The Black Maskers" gained Professor Eliot considerable fame in theatrical circles, both on account of the elaborate settings required and the acting of the young women he coached...
...cannot be said now. Yet if the screen was ever moving, if producers have ever credited their patrons with perception sufficient to be delighted by suggestion, by nuance of lighting, gesture and stage-composition, for the expression of valid emotions, then these things have come to pass again. Playwright Andreyev has Victor Seastrom to thank for directing, Lon Chancy for acting, a highly authentic recreation. "He," one recalls, is a much-slapped circus clown, beloved by the world only for a buffoonery which he wrings from the shattered, poignant remnant of a life known to none but himself...
This year's settings will be essentially different in nature from those used last winter for Andreyev's "Life of Man". Last year the scenery was of the impressionistic school with no attempt at realistic illusion. Each of the five sets of the play was designed to express the mood and action of the play, beginning with the humble scene of Man's birth, and ending in a distorted chaos which reflects the final note of the play...