Word: andreyev
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...final curtain of the Harvard Dramatic Club's production of Andreyev's "Life of Man", at Brattle Hall last Tuesday evening, left a profound impression on the audience as a whole, and an impulsive desire on the individual's part to rush up and shake hands all around, with producers and actors alike, on the success of this, their supreme achievement. Last year, in "Beranger", the club undertook what many thought to be a task beyond its scope and power--and finished it with high credit to themselves. In the present instance, this courageous little group of workers entered upon...
...this evening, the Dramatic Club will give its first performance of Leonid Andreyev's "The Life of Man" at Brattle Hall. This will be the first time that the play has been publicly presented in America...
...Life of Man," the new Dramatic Club play by Leonid Andreyev, will be given for the first time tomorrow evening at 8.10 o'clock at Brattle Hall. Further performances will be given at the same place on the evenings of December 14 and 18, and a single performance will be given on Friday afternoon. December 15, at the Hollis Theatre...
...Gets Slapped" grew out of the vulgar misappropriation and misinterpretation of "The Life of Man". Andreyev saw no hope for man in the present state of civilization. He said so in "The Life of Man". His "The Life of Man" was a fine piece of writing, written in the newer means and methods of the theatre, written with the power and vigor that satiric truth and penetration can alone bring. It was written before "He Who Gets Slapped", and the unacknowledged adaptations of his "The Life of Man" that were used on other continental stages, coupled with domestic unhappiness, made...
...Andreyev spoke of his belief in tones of satire and of tragedy--an impulse coloured by memory. Reading and experience had laid its hand heavily upon him. The coordination of his pen hand, and his brain knew no compromise. His was the utterance of impulses turned as of water into wine by memories and always uncensored. He will live beyond this generation to a better understanding by the next, because his was romance unbiased by the influence of Freud. "Give me back the image of my beautiful Goddess" as Andreyev says in "He Who Gets Slapped...