Word: chekhovisms
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...land echoed with the sad clanking of the chains that fettered the czars' prisoners, and then with the sighs of all those thousands who continued to be banished, body and soul, after the Bolshevik Revolution. "How many mysteries does the taiga hide in its enormity!" wrote Anton Chekhov. Siberia-land of ice and tears...
DUNSTER HOUSE. Pinocchio, plus Tweety and Sylvester cartoons, Mar. 24, 10 a.m., $.50. Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Sidney Lumet...
Uncle Vanya. A new production of Chekhov's play, opening tomorrow at the Boston Repertory Theater, Marlboro and Berkeley...
...David Merrick's yet-to-be-made film version of The Great Gatsby, Mia Farrow does not intend to rest on her laurels-or her pretty face. Be fore she starts filming, Mia, who is getting $200,000 for Gatsby, is spending the time as Irina in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, with London's Company Theater. Her take: $60 a week...
...Anton Chekhov. An aristocratic family of spent means and etiolated will is about to lose its ancestral home and beloved cherry orchard. By symbolic extension, the privileged are about to lose all of Russia. Everyone has his favorite Chekhov play, but no one has ever seriously denied that this is one of the greatest plays in the entire history of dramatic art. It is a daunting venture for any group of actors, and especially for an all-black cast such as this, since black actors have had such meager opportunities to play classic roles. Insofar as this production at Joseph...