Word: chekhovisms
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...Dostoyevsky reading Dickens, Conrad reading Dostoyevsky, Woolf reading Chekhov,” he says. “You can’t talk about the novel form unless you talk about the international form...
...literature...you read it with a highlighting pen in hand,” she says. “You hand a guy who’s planning on being a doctor The Death of Ivan Ilych and let him read some works by doctors like William Carlos Williams or Chekhov and it changes their perspective...
...first turned up at acting school in Sydney, the teachers were determined not to like him. "They admitted it later, after they were my friends," he says with his ready chuckle. "I was very clean-cut, hammy and let's-put-on-a-show. They were very Beckett and Chekhov." But the qualities that made him repellent to the Method types later made him a natural for those extra-credit activities, like being a host on awards shows (he did the Tonys in June) and Saturday Night Live (in late 2001), that get a novitiate supernova noticed. He is already...
...difference between Chekhov’s work and Ginkas’s adaptation is all the more striking because the dialogue of the play, save for the clowns’ episodes, is a word-for-word transcription of the entire Chekhov story. The protagonists, Dmitry Gurov (Stephen Pelinksi) and Anna Sergeyevna (Elisabeth Waterston), serve as narrators, acting out their words and emotions as the play unfolds. This technique might sound literary and dry—but in fact it works surprisingly well, for the actors are lacking enough in self-conscious enough to pull...
...whole, Chekhov lovers and prospective audience members would save time, money and patience by skipping this play and sitting down to read the original short story instead of enduring this version. Ginkas’s show would have been a good 30-minute skit but makes for a frustrating play...