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...particular play that the Harvard Dramatic Club are to present to us is one of Evreinov's latest dramas in which he merges together his various kaleidoscopic theories and at the same time emerges from them into something else. References in various English sources to a play by Evreinov called "The Main Thing", "The Most Important Thing", "The Chief Point", "The Chief", "The Quintessence", "What They Thought They Were", and now "Mr. Paraclete" prove all refer to one and the same play. The translation made by William L. Laurence '12, that is to be used in the performance...
Since the announcement of its Fall production by the Harvard Dramatic Club much has been written about Evreinov and the monodrama. This is as it should be for the name of Evreinov naturally is very closely associated with his pet theory. Yet in this particular instance it is well to clear up some possible misconception. While Evreinov is, of course, the champion of the monodrama it doesn't necessarily follow that he employs only that particular form as a means of expression. He is too good a showman not to know that the drama cannot be reduced to a strict...
This is what Evreinov means by theatricality, his companion theory of the monodrama. It means much more than the art of the theatre. It embraces a much wider field of human activity, originating, actually, in life itself and from there ascending to its highest expression on the stage. By theatricality he understands the power of transformation which he believes to be deeply rooted in human character. To appear what one is not, to transform life into a continuous performance is the ideal which should be set up by humanity. To put it in other words to escape the misery...
...Quintessence" was written in an attempt to show in the language of the theatre that such a mission can be achieved by the theatre and to accomplish his purpose Evreinov has emphasized a very subtle and at times tantalizing technique. While the play supposedly takes place in Russia actually it takes place somewhere on the border land between reality and unreality. It is a will-o'-the wisp sort of a play eluding our grasp just at the moment we attempt to put our finger on it. It is like the moon on a mackerel-sky with the white clouds...
...This year the ambitions of the club are even higher. They have now in rehearsal 'Mr. Paraclete', translated from the Russian of Nikolai Evreinov specifically for their purpose. What they will make out of it remains to be seen. But the conditions that will permit a play to be chosen purely apart from commercial considerations, and the conviction that it is the superior order of creative art which should command the attention of the Dramatic Club, surely do not show that the drama in Harvard is in quite so lamentable a state of disrepute as it might conceivably...