Word: chekov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln Square Theatre, which will be completed by 1961, will house a repertory drama group, plus a four year acting school. It will produce new plays and some contemporary classics of Shaw, Ibsen, and Chekov. Whitehead hopes to model the Lincoln Square Theatre after the East Berlin Brecht Theatre. This German theatre has its own company of writers, actors, and producers...
Sometimes, though not often, a play comes along and says, "This is the way you who watch this play are, this is the way you live, and these are the things you suffer." If it says so well and beautifully, it is a great play. Anton Chekov's The Three Sisters is surpassingly great...
...only suggests something of the beauty of this play, and not very often at that. There are no villains who must accept the blame for the lack of unqualified success. With two or three exceptions, the general level of competence and experience is just not high enough to do Chekov's work justice. But the production is not total failure, either, because two of the performers--Barbara Blanchard and Thomas Teal--are good enough to support it while they are on stage...
Elizabeth Stearns' directing shows she can make actors move into adequate enough groupings on the stage, but without any clear idea of why they are doing it. She completely fails to understand the rhythms and contrapuntal structure of Chekov's dramaturgy, which help make The Three Sisters the theatrical masterpiece it ought to be, but fails in this production...
...between a choke of four and five shows one weekend and none the next, forcing an alternate glut and fast on theatergoers. As good a production as the freshman Twelfth Night never made it out of the red because of the overwhelming competition of Gilbert and Sullivan, Sartre and Chekov. Some kind of organization, or regulation of drama at Harvard is necessary to make the "drama renaissance" more a flowering and less a mushrooming...