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...with a richly expressive voice, he was less likely to play romantic leads than cool intellectuals or forbidding colonels whose aloof or aristocratic facades fail to conceal the emotions within. On the London stage, he mastered some of the great Shakespearean roles and gave definitive performances in plays by Chekhov and Ibsen. His screen credits include Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), Dead of Night (1945) and The Browning Version (1951). Knighted in 1959, Redgrave struggled to keep working and in 1979 made his last major appearance when, already nearly disabled, he played a wheelchair-bound stroke victim...
...many are there?) should not frighten anyone off. It is one of the New Yorker's earlier works, and Simon, whose own characters have become walking cliches of American situation comedy, gains by the use of Chekov's characters. Each scene in the play is adapted from one of Chekhov's short stories, which means the actors must change character after each scene. This is a big challenge, and the cast, for the most part, meets...
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...
This season's "regular" shows will run for seven weeks, starting with Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," which opened last night. The season's offerings include more notable "firsts," such as a weekend of staged readings of original student works and the combination of two shorter plays--Shepard's "Savage Love" and "Touch and Cage Games" by Bradley K. Marshall '85 which address similar themes...
...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...