Word: chekhovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three Sisters. All-star revival of Chekhov's classic of frustrated, self-pitying lives (TIME...
...performed many near-miracles. She has made the yearning soul as good box office as the fiery body. She has made an invalid lady on a couch the essence of glamor. She has turned Shakespeare and Shaw into rousing hits. And when, next week, she brings her revival of Chekhov's The Three Sisters to Broadway, it will boast a dream production by anybody's reckoning - the most glittering cast the theater has seen, commercially, in this generation...
Even for Producer Cornell, this galaxy came about more by necessity than design. She wanted to play in The Three Sisters; her husband wanted to direct it. But they found that Chekhov, perhaps the most difficult of all playwrights to do justice to, demands the most flawless casting, the most balanced acting...
Russian Revolution. With his four turn-of-the-century plays-The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard-Anton Chekhov, a tuberculous Russian doctor, quietly effected a revolution in the theater. Tossing out the well-made play with a cast-iron plot, he substituted a fluid, unemphatic, uneventful picture of life-the life of a fiberless leisure-class Russian society...
Next day Ivy Litvinoff reviewed the performance in the Washington Post. With an Englishwoman's casualness about travel, and Soviet-bred disdain for Chekhov's pre-revolution neurotics, she sniffed at the idea that "it should take three perfectly healthy young women, with the price of a ticket in their pockets, four acts not to get to Moscow...