Word: chekhovisms
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...FROM CHEKHOV WITH LOVE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Sir John Gielgud, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Dorothy Tutin, Nigel Davenport and Wendy Hiller star in this biographical drama based on the life of the 19th century Russian playwright...
WALTON: THE BEAR (Angel). British Composer William Walton premiered this one-act gem only a year ago. He was fortunate in finding an excellent librettist (an increasingly rare breed of writer) named Paul Dehn, who based his freewheeling lyrics on Chekhov's farce. Walton's eclectic styles are more than equal to the idiotic but entertaining plot about Popova, a widow who so enrages a creditor that he challenges her to a duel, but they suffer the fate of operatic lightning-love and fall into each other's arms. The work is laced with musical and verbal...
...best U.S. playwrights. For more than two decades, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams have dominated the American stage in much the way that Hemingway and Faulkner once dominated the novel. Miller is dramatically the descendant of Ibsen and socioeconomically the child of Marx. Williams is dramatically the descendant of Chekhov and psychologically the child of Freud. At present, they seem to have depleted their inheritance...
...PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). Sir Michael Redgrave, Rosemary Harris and Max Adrian star with Sir Laurence and Lady Olivier in his celebrated 1962 production of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya...
...CHERRY ORCHARD. Uta Hagen leads the APA in a gentle and balanced production of Chekhov's commentary on the sad absurdity of human beings who, unable to adapt themselves to the changes of history, grope about in a half-light that may be twilight and may be dawn. Pantagleize, The Show Off and Exit the King round out the repertory...