Word: chekhovisms
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...slips away from them, Heartbreak House resembles the works of Anton Chekov. In the play's preface, Shaw expresses the desire to write "a fantasia in the Russian manner." A mixture of mystery and melancholy, Heartbreak House could be described as something of a cross between Agatha Christie and Chekhov...
...Brustein was an assistant professor of acting at the Yale Drama School and a frequent performer with the Yale Repertory Theater, Steven Kezerian, head of the Yale News Bureau, said yesterday. Her latest role was the lead in the Yale Repertory Theater's production of Chekhov's "The Seagull," which finished its run Saturday night...
...literature of the Soviet Union's political dissidents continues to crowd the imagination like a 19th century novel. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov echo in the dramatic testimony of Solzhenitsyn, Sinyavsky, Daniel, Sakharov, Medvedev and Mandelshtam. Vladimir Bukovsky's To Build a Castle adds the spirit of Lewis Carroll. His Soviet Union seems like a vertiginous rabbit hole lined in permafrost, or the other side of the looking glass, where the Red kings and queens of the Kremlin can sometimes be made to play by the rules...
...scripts as vehicles for individual talent and egos, we will see style and 'razamataz', we will see anything but theater that probes or investigates, links an intellectual insight to an emotionalism with talent and style to produce a work of true theater, a work in the tradition of Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, Beckett, and many other great writers...
...these flaws in Sellars' production stem more from inevitabilities in Chekhov's play than from major failures of direction. The Loeb crew finds the pulses and rhythms of The Three Sisters and lets them dictate the approach. The result is a show that moves, inspires, and sometimes sings in a lonely, tortured voice...