Word: artes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ART: Arthur Hochstein (Deputy Art Director); Linda Louise Freeman (Covers); Steve Conley, Jennifer Napoli, Billy Powers, Irene Ramp, Ina Saltz, John F. White, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Angel Ackemyer, Stefano Arata, James Elsis, Carol March, Kenneth B. Smith (Designers); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: John P. Dowd (Traffic); Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Victoria Nightingale, Lisa Sampson, Nomi Silverman, Eugene Tick, Dennis Wheeler Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Cynthia Davis, Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...
...stagecraft (a costumed mannequin standing amid the audience's seats, a door flinging open to reveal a burst of light) are recognizable even to Westerners as derived from the 1960s work of such still active directors as Yuri Lyubimov and Oleg Efremov, who today runs the venerable Moscow Art Theater. The one true innovation of recent years, nudity, has become similarly cliched: bare breasts or bottoms, and even crotches, are on view in at least five Moscow theaters, never as an essential to the plot...
...needing to rediscover its true concern, the human soul. Audiences apparently agree. While theatergoers continue to clap for lines of topical invective, they seem to respond most strongly to intimate glimpses of lost love, betrayal by friends and alcoholic desperation, whether in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the Moscow Art Theater or in quasi-documentary scripts about prostitutes and gravediggers performed by the city's most impressive acting troupe, the Sovremennik (Contemporary) Theater. Says Konstantin Raikin, artistic director of the Satirikon Theater, where the Russian-language debut of Jean Genet's psychosexual drama The Maids is Moscow's hottest show...
...wind and birds and a distantly remembered lullaby, until a screeching train cuts off his reverie. Emotive yet astringent, these are moments worthy of Charles Laughton in a play sometimes deserving of comparison with Gorky's The Lower Depths. If Soviet theater remains for the most part an art in search of significant new voices, in this play and production it has found...