Word: directors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Koumiko Mystery emerges, however, as a very tightly structured work of art, one that illustrates clearly that the presence of the camera transforms reality, placing it firmly in the hands of the director who can order it however he will...
...originator of the experiment, associate social director John L. Tolleson said the failure "only proved that Summer School students here must fit into one of the following categories on Friday nights in August: already have something to do, have gone to the Cape or elsewhere, are studying or have become very inhibited...
...True, he did adopt a quasi-realistic diction with its illogicalities, its wandering directions, its repetitions; but he was skillful enough to infuse it with a marvelous rhythm and a sort of poetic evocativeness. (This technique strongly affected the plays of our own O'Neill, Odets, and Hellman.) The director and the players--and, indeed, the audience-- must be able to catch unspecified implications, to apprehend not so much what is said as what is consciously or subconsciously thought and not said. In addition, Chekhov has woven a host of verbal and tangible symbols into his texture, which makes...
Although Chekhov is depicting a group of people, almost everyone of them is decidedly lonely, and frustrated in one way or another. And they are all ordinary, unexceptional people, essentially failures. Yet they are not carbon copies of each other--except in bad productions. Director Kahn and his players have managed to assure that every single one of these average people is unique, is an individual, is a three-dimensional character, with a past, a present, and--this is important--a future. Chekhov envisions a happier future for later, generations, and underlines the necessity of hard work and hope...
...French. Few scenes in all drama are as chillingly cruel as the one in which Natasha upbrades the loyal octogenarian nanny Anfisa and proceeds to advocate kicking her out because the old woman can't work enough, both does not convey sufficient age. (It occurs to me that director Kahn might have improved his production by switching the roles of Misses Maxwell and Reid; the former looks young enough of an equally distasteful albeit quite different Natasha...