Word: chekhovs
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...keep chaos from the door -the director of each production has the usual artistic control. That divided authority may explain the unevenness of the fare. The blasted heath of King Lear would seem to be a British company's natural territory; instead, Shakespeare provides their weakest evening. In Chekhov's Russia, on the other hand, they are at home and even offer some accommodation to R.D. Laing'spsychic tangles...
...never heard William Walton's The Bear or Ralph Vaughn Williams's Riders to the Sea, but Walton and Vaughn Williams were both good composers of the 20th-century English pastoral school, I guess you could call it, and Chekhov and Synge aren't bad librettists. Associate Artists Opera, at the Boston Center for the Arts. Tonight and Saturday, February 16, 8 p.m. Some rush seats...
QUINCY DINING HALL, Camille, with Greta Garbo, at 8, and Chekhov's The Sea Gull, with Vanessa Redgrave and James Mason...
...Bernstein's Candide. This week Lichtenstein unveils his greatest coup yet: a three-month season by three top British repertory companies. Playgoers will be able to see the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Young Vic and the Actors Company hi productions ranging from Shakespeare's Richard II through Chekhov's Wood Demon to a semidramatized reading of Sylvia Plath's poems...
UNCLE VANYA. George C. Scott, Julie Christie and Nicol Williamson helped make this the crowning dramatic event of the year. The splendid cast was obviously inspired by the brilliant direction of Mike Nichols and the irreluctable genius of Anton Chekhov...