Word: chekov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play, but one which by many standards quite over-towers any other on view at present in New York is "The Cherry Orchard" by Chekov, consummately produced by Eva Le Gallienne's earnest little band of repertory players in the rickety old Civic Repertory Theatre on Fourteenth Street. Nanimova heads the cast of the play which depicts the slow defeat of a noble Russian family ironically treasuring its unproductive cherry orchard, only to finally see it chopped down by a newly rich peasant who buys the estate...
These critical deriders, Miss Newman, in a brilliant volume that is at once an anthology and a book of criticism, disproves. She writes the short story's pedigree. She arranges in a line short stories selected from Petronius, Boccaccio, Voltaire, Hans Christian and Sherwood Anderson, Merimee, De Maupassant, Chekov, James Joyce, Henry James, Jules Laforgue, Paul Morand. Before each story is a brief critical preface describing the influences that shaped each writer, the influences that each set in motion, the significance of each in the line of heroic descent...
...Balieff's Chauve-Souris are by now the common property of all America. The drollery of the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers; the exquisite, breathless beauty of the porcelain pantomines; the gorgeous foolishment of "The Sudden Death of a Horse; or the "Greatness of the Russian Soul: by Anton Chekov", the weary, straining rhythm of the Velga boat song,--these and a thousand others are cherished memories for the tens of thousands of Americans who have seen the Chauve-Souris in the past two years...
Anathema. Like most Russian plays, Anathema is a plunge into the basic mysteries and contradictions of life, but Andreyev (author of last season's Theatre Guild success, He Who Gets Slapped) works with symbolized, metaphysical ideas instead of with the raw material of actual life from which Chekov and Gorky draw...