Word: chekhovs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While playwrights like Shepherd and Chekhov--who usually comprise standard fare at the Ex--will continue to predominate during the regular season, the HRDC has made numerous efforts to open up the theater to new group especially those that are not specifically oriented to drama. David G. Victor '87, president of the HRDC, explained that this season's outreach effort is "a way of extending the opportunities we can provide--including a space and some financial help--to people who aren't the traditional stock of the HRDC...
...Both Clifford Odets' Golden Boy and Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd lie open and inert on the stage, as if they were exams to be passed and not theatrical experiences to be shared. Only Wild Honey, Michael Frayn's free adaptation of a play Chekhov wrote when he was still a student, strikes vital sparks, and this because Frayn treats the text as an organism that can flower with care and pruning. At 21, Chekhov was already halfway toward being "Chekhovian"; he alternated comic and pathetic moods instead of blending the two into a sonorous...
...philosophy but admits to a continuing fascination with theatrical structure. "The actor can only work if the structure is just right, and the structure won't be any good unless the acting is absolutely straight on." The types of innovations he has tried reflect that preoccupation. When he directed Chekhov's The Seagull in the Agassiz last spring, in what was perhaps the most uniformly acclaimed Harvard production in recent years--he seated the audience on stage and moved the actors around among the rows of empty seats--isolated, trapped, or lost...
Others set the date in 1904, when Chekhov on his deathbed declared, "It's a long time since I drank champagne." Appropriately, his coffin then rode to burial in a freight car marked FRESH OYSTERS...
Painting Churches. The twilight of life, the dawn of senility: Chekhov comes to Beacon Hill in Tina Howe's sweet, zestful off-Broadway comedy...