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Written by Dramatist. Mikhail Shatrov, Thus We Will Win uses Lenin's surreptitious visit to his Kremlin office several months before his death in January 1924 as the starting point for a three-hour flashback through the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Soviet audiences sit rapt as Actor Alexander Kalyagin, a startling Lenin lookalike, voices concern that Joseph Stalin, who succeeded him and later presided over the deaths of millions of suspected opponents, has "concentrated enormous power in his hands." The stage Lenin calls for more openness and democracy in the party. "There are three things I cherish...
...Clare the dramatist, author of The Women (1936), a Broadway comedy that still can bite...
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory play themselves. Wally a New York playwright whose plays no one will bother to produce. Andre a world-renowned dramatist and incurable manic-depressive whose obsession with death seems to be the drug that keeps him plugged into the world. Andre invites his old friend Wally to come and meet him to talk and enjoy dinner at a lavish Manhattan restaurant...
...plenty of great drama from the 15th-century Everyman through much of Ibsen to most of Brecht). But he was also doing a good deal more, for Shakespeare is rarely as simple as he is often made out to be. There are ironic subtexts in the play; and the dramatist includes inglorious aspects of war as well as unbecoming traits in Henry's character. The Bard gave us something far more complex than a cardboard king of diamonds, as more and more people are coming to realize--including myself, since the last time I wrote about the play. Just...
...solves one thorny problem by reordering the dramatist's text. He builds up lots of audience sympathy for the servant-boy (most winningly played, in both English and French, by 13-year-old Peter James), and then has a Frenchman wantonly stab the lad to death atop a supply wagon, which moves offstage. Then Henry enters with the boy's corpse in his arms, and says. 'I was not angry since I came to France/Until this instant'--whereupon he orders his men to kill their prisoners, which occurs earlier in the text. All of this makes the king's most...