Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a third character in the sequence described above, the girl Jeanne who is the agent of Michel's salvation. Like Michel, she permits herself to be degraded. After he flees Paris, she becomes pregnant by his friend Jim, but unlike Michel she does not permit herself to believe...
Although Chekhov is depicting a group of people, almost everyone of them is decidedly lonely, and frustrated in one way or another. And they are all ordinary, unexceptional people, essentially failures. Yet they are not carbon copies of each other--except in bad productions. Director Kahn and his players have...
Irina's other suitor is the captain, Solyony, who kills Tusenbach in the duel. He is a strange man, and throughout the play keeps putting scent on his hands to get rid of their smell of death--like some sort of male Lady Macbeth. Right from the first act, Charles...
In recent years The Three Sisters is the Chekhov play that has been most frequently staged around the country. I suspect it will be quite some time before we have another production that captures as well as this one so much of the profundity and irony that Checkhov put into...
THE SCENE'S symbolic content is perfectly accessible. Such devices as the cage and the lamp, together with Sternberg's handling of depth and sets, set up a pleasant and very restricted environment out of which Jannings' character develops. But the same symbols have a deeper meaning which, through their...