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Gogol lived and worked in the illusion that he was defending his time, place and class, while actually he helped to destroy them. In a full dress study that will probably be the definitive work on Gogol in English, Russian-born Biographer David Magarshack (Chekhov,'TIME, Sept. 28, 1953; Turgenev, TIME, Sept. 27, 1954) makes clear that it was Gogol's genius, in spite of himself, to open windows in the sealed winter cabin of the Russian soul...
Before a gathering of Soviet agricultural workers and farm experts in Leningrad last week, Nikita Khrushchev, the busy boss of all the Russias, admitted that he could not do everything at once. "Even Chekhov's hero," said Nikita, "unscrewed only one nut before he started on another." But having only just started the huge job of decentralizing the whole of Soviet industry, Khrushchev was ready and willing to take on the biggest and balkiest of all Soviet troubles: the farm problem...
...Chekhov's Uncle Vanya is a striking display of the inspiration and technical mastery that sets Chekhov far above most of his countless imitators. The subtlety, the probing insight into character, the sensitive, tragic spirit that is touched by moments of bright comedy--create a situation drama that is quiet, intense, and marvelously touching. And because Vanya is so personal and muted, and its action so internal, the play is exactly suited to the type of production it receives from Adams House...
...overflow of rage at Serebriakov because the overweeningly self-assertive professor has stifled his life. Vanya shoots Serebriakov twice, once on stage at close range. He misses. Thus the tensions between the principals, their coordinated emotions, and their interdependent sadness are vital. And this is a dimension of Chekhov that the Adams actors rarely create...
...make a small show-case for themselves or act in new, experimental or off-beat works that by their nature are only appealing to a small audience. For example, David Ross and the Fourth Street Theatre have made a very good thing out of producing a cycle of Chekhov plays, even though their recent production of Strinberg's Easter did not have the financial success of their earlier productions...