Word: chekov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last play of the evening, Anton Chekov's The Marriage Proposal, stands in sharp contrast to the Pinter and Williams works. The physical comedy of Chekov's piece seems almost inconsiderate after the grueling emotional turmoil of Williams' piece. Director Aidan Parkinson takes a burlesque approach to Chekov's story of a marriage proposal interrupted by disputes over trivial family rivalries. Dorothy Brodesser returns in drag as the scowling father of Natalia, the woman whom Chekov's feeble hero Lomov wants to wed, and Barlow Anderson as Lomov reaches feats of physical hypochondria that defy description. Parkinson's production comes...
...Chekov once stated that in theater, a gun presented in act one should go off by act three. Guns, in Exotica, do not need to go off. People don't kiss and make up. The labour of living and dealing always goes...
...says, "'The lines that you've written to be spoken by somebody named Spock can be easily distributed to any of the other characters on the screen."' Which is what happened: Captain Kirk appears with two lesser members of the old crew: chief engineer "Scotty" (James Doohan) and Ensign Chekov (Walter Koenig). Several members of the Next Generation cast, meanwhile, were less than thrilled with their relatively small amount of screen time. Says LeVar Burton, who plays Geordi: "Hopefully, if we do another one of these, we will have an opportunity to spread the wealth more...
Albee said that while Chekov, Beckett and Pirandello influenced him, his artistic vision remains his own. "The whole matter of influence is learning from other writers how to be yourself," he said...
...addition to his work off-Broadway, Vittorioso worked in an award-winning theater company and participated in an international theater festival. He has performed in plays by writers from Anton Chekov to Sam Shepard...