Word: chekhovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finogenov's play does not concern itself much with plot. Instead, it concentrates on a series of character sketches, with a visible Chekhov influence, and winds up as a decidedly unproletarian drama--with plenty of bourgeois emotions and sentimentality to contend with. Afinogenov isn't much as a Soviet propagandist; he does much better as a playwright...
Good serious plays are scarce enough, talented new playwrights are scarcer. Whitest hope is 21-year-old, London-born Peter Ustinov, whose The House of Regrets-written when he was 19-has the critics talking of a "new Chekhov" and mumbling about genius...
...Life With Father), John Van Druten, Philip Barry (starring Katharine Hepburn), S. N. Behrman (starring Lunt & Fontanne). But Comedy-Writers Kaufman & Hart, Clare Boothe, Rachel Crothers, Noel Coward have nothing announced; nor have Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck, Lillian Hellman, Clifford Odets. Katharine Cornell plans to revive Chekhov's The Three Sisters and Paul Robeson may go to Broadway with Othello (TIME, Aug. 24). Only serious plays definitely set for fall-both deal with the war-are Maxwell Anderson's The Eve of St. Mark, Emlyn Williams' The Morning Star...
...Russians hanging grotesquely from a gallows; a roomful of naked children left like animal carcasses in a refrigerator; weeping women combing the piled-up dead as Russian troops hurry through the smoking villages after the enemy; the ruins of three national shrines: the country homes of Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov...
...Mississippi, and would set the rent at a sky-high figure if they were not partial to the idea, which they haven't been in the past. There are some groups already participating in the permanent Repertory idea: Jasper Decter's Hedgerow Theatre outside of Philadelphia; the Michael Chekhov Players, established in Ridgefield, Conn,. but almost constantly on tour; the Seattle Repertory Playhouse; the Cleveland Play House; and here in Boston, on a lesser scale, the New England Repertory Company, a brave little organization, constantly gaining in support...