Word: chekhovisms
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...case of Neil Simon, such tinkering may more accurately be described as an affectionate whim, an experimental doodle by a humorist who has chosen to go temporarily AWOL. He has taken some Chekhov short stories, and with a fond, undeviating respect, adapted them into a kind of narrative revue. The show is knit together by a commentator, "The Writer" (Christopher Plummer), who is made up to look very much like the great and good dramatist and doctor...
...first thing that comes to mind is that if Chekhov had thought that any of these stories had the makings of plays, even one-acters, he would have written them that way. In second-guessing Chekhov, Simon merely confirms that Chekhov made the right decision in the first place. A further drawback is that Simon and Chekhov are not on the same wave length of humor. Simon's forte is the self-deprecatory one-liner with a New York Jewish accent. Chekhov's humor contains a deep-flowing Slavic melancholy together with a riotous farcicality. Compassionately, his work...
Paul Scofield and Katharine Hepburn playing Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance in Oshkosh, Wis.? Sir Laurence Olivier doing Chekhov's Three Sisters in Totowa, N.J.? Fredric March, Robert Ryan and Lee Marvin in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh in Mobile, Ala.? In one of the most unusual and ambitious movie ventures in decades, the American Film Theater has packed up an unprecedented trunkful of talents -among them Directors John Frankenheimer, Tony Richardson and Peter Hall, Actors Alan Bates, Stacy Keach and Zero Mostel-and this fall will hit the road bringing classics of modern...
UNCLE VANYA. Three screenings of a BBC film of Laurence Olivier's 1962 Chichester Festival production of the Anton Chekhov play. It's a great play, and with a cast headed by Olivier, Joan Plowright, Michael Redgrave, Sybil Thorndike, and Rosemary Harris, missing it would be pretty stupid. Sunday at 6 and 9, Monday at 8, at the Loeb...
...Chekhov. "S.L. Parmacek