Word: chekov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violence, poverty, and antiquity. Professors find something to teach in another university. In a pinch, they can cross the United States, from East to West--according to that law which demands that one "Go to San Francisco," which is the liet-motiv of American dreams, like the Moscow of Chekov's Three Sisters,--while westerners can think only of the East...
...Leverett House Dramatic Society put together an odd evening of theather by presenting Chekov's The Anniversary and Sartre's No Exit on the same program. Both plays are one-acters, but there any parallel between them ends. The Chekov piece is a mad little farce, while the play by Sartre, though also billed as a comedy, is a somber and complicated essay in philosophy. The two dramas, however, do not leave behind an impression of conflicting moods, since the production of No Exit all but eclipses that of its companion...
...Chekov play, however, director Michael Harwood must take a good deal of the responsibility for a comparative failure. In trying to show the demented quality of the goings-on in a Russian bank near the turn of the century, Harwood subjects his actors to a break-neck pace that is much more frantic than funny. Martin Mintz, as a clerk, and John Fenn, as the bank manager, do get some laughs, but they constantly give the impression of trying too hard, with too little material. Yet the defects of the curtain-raiser matter very little, since the over-all quality...
Three one-act plays will be presented in the House dining hall from April 20 to 23, Neilson said. "The Proposal," by Anton Chekov, "A Strange Kind of Romance," by Tennessee Williams, and "Weatherwise," by Noel Coward, will be offered...
Where once Russia was noted for the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky; the drama of Anton Chekov; the satires of Michael Saltykov; and the sketches of Gleb Uspensky, Russia today, stifled by the evils of uniformity, has no writer of first rank...