Word: chekov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although many of author Peter Batinor's lines are trite, and he resolves nothing in an unsatisfying ending, his take off on Moliere, Shakespeare, and Chekov are quite amusing. The four colonels are allowed to try their amatory luck with Miss Palmer in the enchanted castle, and they are given a choice of any historical period as a setting. This allows Ustinov to inject his parodies...
...course, during these sketches Miss Palmer is always the heroine. She is delightful mouthing lines modeled after Mclieve, Shakespeare, and Chekov, but she just cannot handle a Brooklynese dialect in the American scene; and frankly, I don't see how anyone could. Harrison, too, has no trouble filling brief roles as a gouty husband, a jester, and an Uncle Vanva, but as an American gangster, he is a very brittle tough...
...program of two one-act plays by Anton Chekov, which will be presented on Monday, March 27, is the first in a series of four readings to be staged by the Dramatic Club this term. In keeping with the spirit of "International Theatre Month" HDC, limiting its selections to foreign works, is considering plays by Moliere, Shaw, and Aristophanes for the last three readings...