Word: chekhovisms
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...Country Scandal may be mere chaff compared to Chekhov's masterpieces, but even chaff will do for a light snack. This is all that the Theatre Company of Boston intends to serve with its current production. The play has ambiguous possibilities: it could be staged as light comedy or as rather heavy tragi-comedy. The Theatre Company has chosen to save its sobriety for meatier drama...
...Theatre Company has decided to softpeddle the pathos. Instead it looks for laughs on the strength of the play's irony, and usually finds them. Chekhov filled A Country Scandal with dozens of juicy exchanges, giving the actors plenty of material...
Dustin Hoffman, expertly leading the light-hearted approach to Chekhov as the tipsy doctor, is the funniest figure in the play. John Lasell manages to capitalize on Platonov's absurdities without making his tragic side incongruous. And Penelope Laughton portrays the simple naivete of Platonov's wife with great subtlety. Unfortunately, the roles of the young fop and the widow's stepson are somewhat overinflated by David Bouvier and Joseph O'Sullivan. And Betsy White, as the widow, proposes sin to Platonov like a lenient mother trying to sell her children on brushing after every meal...
...college and can't get into a sorority, you can always start your own," she says. "That's what I did." Her company occupies a converted electric-fan factory and does seven mixed-bag productions a year (Harvey, Moliere's Imaginary Invalid, Chekhov), was an amateur group for seven years before going Equity in 1954. In 1960, the Ford Foundation began giving the Alley $2,000 a week to hire ten professional actors and keep them there for at least three seasons. New York professionals rushed to the scene and stayed. The subscription roll has built...
...gentlemen in question-an Italian, a Frenchman, a Yugoslav, a Greek -are the generally obscure writers who won Nobel Prizes (worth $51,158 this year) between 1959 and 1963. In 62 years of Nobel-picking, the Swedish Academy of Literature has ignored an incredible array of logical candidates-Chekhov, Conrad, Frost, Hardy, Ibsen, Joyce, Sartre, Malraux, Moravia, Pound, Proust, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Zola-not to mention the glaring neglect of non-European writers, notably in China, India and Japan...