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...building on Chekhov Street, just off Moscow's Pushkin Square, was the town house of a wealthy man in prerevolutionary times. Now it is Psychoneurological Dispensary No. 14, one of the outpatient psychiatric clinics that deal with the day-to-day problems of the anxious, the alcoholic and the seriously disturbed in the Soviet Union...
...dance buffs, the current season has been lackluster, relying heavily on stock repertory and a dwindling pool of leading dancers. The most eagerly anticipated new production, Plisetskaya's The Sea Gull, which she performed to music composed by her husband, Rodion Shchedrin, evoked the atmosphere of Chekhov's play in stylized vignettes but contained little real dancing...
Ontario's Niagara-on-the-Lake Shaw Festival is opening with an international flourish, offering not only Shaw but also Chekhov and French Farceur Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear. Herewith, an account of the first...
...CHERRY ORCHARD by Anton Chekhov...
...trees for a housing development. There should be a hush surrounding the regal presence of Mme. Ranevsky when she sweeps into a room. Carole Shelley resembles a '40s movie starlet posturing to capture a producer's eye. All this merely taps the defects in this production. Chekhov preached that the salvation of Russia lay in work. The Shaw Festival might take that to heart...