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...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...
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...
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...