Word: chekhovisms
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...elucidating motivation, which rightfully enough is an obscene word in a play which is a succession of naked images. Garga has a mother who accomplishes nothing and then leaves in a pointless flourish. And he has a sister copied out of Dostoyevsky, played by Carrie Rose as a perverted Chekhov ingenue...
PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK, Cincinnati, Ohio, will have Belgian Playwright Michel de Ghelderode's Escurial until July 29, followed by Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Aug. 3-26, and then Anatol, a musical by Tom Jones, Aug. 31-Sept...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The Lady with the Dog is a Russian film based on Anton Chekhov's 19th century story of. . . love affair between a middle-aged banker and a beautiful young lady with a white Pomeranian...
IVANOV (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Sir John Gielgud, who with Author John Bowen has adapted Anton Chekhov's play for TV, also stars in the life-sick title role. Cast includes Claire Bloom, Roland Culver, Angela Baddeley and Yvonne Mitchell...
Arthur Miller's arguments notwithstanding, the crafts of the stage and the short story are entirely distinct: the difference between someone telling a quiet anecdote and someone engaging in a public debate. Only a few writers have managed both with equal felicity, among them Chekhov and Maugham. Such fiction practitioners as Saul Bellow, John O'Hara and Norman Mailer have had little success at playwriting. With the direction reversed, Miller and Williams at least make a better showing...