Word: chekhovisms
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...evening of good drama, one could do worse than the Experimental Theatre production of Chekhov's The Boor and J.M. Barrie's The Twelve Pound Look. Barrie's play, though sentimental--even silly--achieves in its ending what it fails to do throughout. Its O. Henry twist gives a tearful 19th century play (by the creator of Peter Pan) a comic result and provides a vehicle for some very good acting...
...residents are exposed, clinging to small illusions and scapegoats. The influence of Chekhov on Hellman's play has been pointed out before, and it is strongest in the way characters reveal themselves without self-description, and in the brevity of exposition. Unfortunately, the dull set at the Charles did not enhance the sense of a crumbling milieu that Autumn Garden evokes, and the three-sided stage robbed the audience of 33 per cent of the performances...
...height in Moscow last week. Ice floes were in full flight down the river. At last the Kremlin's onion domes were bare of snow. In Sokolniki Park, small boys whooped after model planes and grownups silently drank up the sun. It was the time when, Chekhov wrote, "spring is ready to enter the soul...
Williams worked at that time in a kind of basement garret with Clark Mills, a fellow poet. Mills introduced him to a one-foot shelf of influences: Rimbaud, Rilke, Lorca, Chekhov, Melville, D. H. Lawrence and Hart Crane, who became Williams' poetic idol. Tom introduced Mills to Rose. As Mills recalls it, Mrs. Williams "commanded Tom to bring home 'gentleman callers,' " as Tom Wingfield does in Menagerie; "Williams' poor sister was dressed in old-fashioned Southern costumes. She was very lovely. She never talked at all. Mrs. Williams never stopped talking-empty verbiage about their status...
...rich. A third-grader studies the origin of everything from rivers and steel to frogs and wind. Anatomy and medicine are introduced with an adult description of bones, muscles, lungs, heart, ear, contagious diseases and six bacteria, all illustrated. Throughout the reader are stories by first-rate authors-Chekhov, Turgenev, Gorky...