Word: chekovian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...husbandry" to his son Harry (Ken Jenkins), who works in a city parks department. Les' wife (Gloria Cromwell) demands this sacrifice-fulfillment from her son; Harry's wife (Deborah Hedwall) denounces it. The play simmers so gently for so long, as each potential confrontation is deflected with Chekovian shrugs and silences, that when it boils into hostility it sears the audience. Husbandry ends in a stalemate between spouses and generations that has the abrupt finality of a domestic tragedy. All four actors are splendid under Jory's acute direction...