Word: andreyev
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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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...
...Life of Man," which the Dramatic Club has chosen for its twenty-fifth production, Andreyev has thrown open such a door; depicting his hero, Man, as an extreme individualist,--one who has made himself the center of the universe, yet failed to establish the necessary bond between his personal existence and the laws of nature. The piece is an impelling example of the tremendously powerful drama of the "inner life,"--the life of today wherein thought in its sufferings, its joys, and its struggles, is the great motivating force. This is the drama which Andreyev calls the theatre of truth...
...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...