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Prefer something more meaty? Two very different productions address themselves more seriously to the mundane grind. The Loeb Ex presents Chekhov's brooding and beautiful The Seagull tonight, tomorrow and Saturday; tickets are free to this 19th-century naturalist masterpiece. The Cambridge Ensemble hosts an original multi-media show entitled Worksong from March 9 through March 18 at the Ensemble theatre, 1151 Mass. Ave. The show depicts a cross-section of workers with humor and song and sensitivity; for more info. call...
...teaches a course on the great novels of erotic desire and he writes his thesis on romantic disillusionment. His special subject is Chekhov and his interpretation of Chekhov reveals Roth's own intent in this novel...
When David despairingly realizes his love for Claire is already withering and that he is only a victim of his own faults, he curses himself. He tells himself he is not one of those sympathetic lost characters out of Chekhov but the insane amputee in a story by Gogol who places an ad for the return of his lost nose. What Roth succeeds in portraying, though, with all the delicacy and poignancy of the Russian dramatist, is that Kepesh is in fact a figure from a Chekhov novel. Not a warped, disfigured monster but a man whose constant pursuit...
...precariously balanced conscience at so tender an age leaves Kepesh nowhere to go but down, then up, then down again. It is a pattern that comes to define his life. At college, uncooperative coeds help him keep naughty Kepesh at bay; nice Kepesh becomes a perceptive student of Anton Chekhov's "romantic disillusionment" and wins a Fulbright scholarship. In London, disaster - and on the other hand, bliss. Kepesh takes up lodgings with two Swedish girls, one of whom outstrips his most humid sexual fantasies...
...Evening of One-Act Plays at the Loeb Experimental Theater combines some of Harvard's best actors and three rarely-shown plays by modern playwrights: "The Proposal," by Chekhov, "The Man with the Flower in His Mouth," by Pirandello, and "Please Don't Walk Around in the Nude," by Feydeau. Should be good. Thurs.-Sat. this week, Wed.-Sat. next. Curtain at 7:30 p.m., tickets free at the Loeb box office anytime...