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...what makes Ivanov interesting is that it contains the germ of Chekhov's genius and carries with it a certain power that with a good production can transcend some of its weaknesses. The Brattle Group, aided by Robert O'Hearn's excellent period settings, has done about the best possible job with such a difficult piece...
Many times a great artist's first creation is his worst, Ivanov was Chekhov's first full length drama, and the author himself realized that it was filled with weaknesses. The play has seldom been performed in Europe, and the Brattle Company showed courage to give Ivanov its American premier. As a play Ivanov is poorly constructed. Some of the scenes approach melodrama; many of the lines are weak; and Chekhov had not yet mastered the subtleties of characterization that heightened the realism of his later works...
Personal Life: Married Sept.11, 1931, in Kristiansand, Norway, to Norwegian-born Annelise Sorensen. Two daughters and a son: Grace, 19, Joan, 15, and Christopher, 2. In appearance, balding and wiry (5 ft. 11 ½ in., 160 Ibs.) ; retiring, scholarly and shy. For relaxation he most enjoys: reading (favorites: Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gibbon) ; piano and guitar; heavy outdoor work on his Pennsylvania farm...
...happy result of the script shortage, desperate TVmen have dipped gingerly into the classics and come up with productions-of Ibsen, and Rostand, Pirandello, Chekhov and Shakespeare. Studio One pioneered with adaptations of Turgenev's Smoke, Henry James's The Ambassadors, Sholom Ansky's The Dybbuk, and has also done a modern-dress Julius Caesar and a Grand Guignol version of Macbeth. Other shows dramatize news stories, historical anecdotes, biographies...
...origins as fast as the bicycle of English letters would carry him. Katherine was pedaling too-from her native New Zealand and an unhappy marriage. She had written her first short stories, the haunting, plot-shy evocations of children, moods and places that would eventually rank her close to Chekhov...