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...Evreinov Given High Praise...
...Nikolai Evreinov, author of "Mr Paraclete", this year's Dramatic Club production, is, according to Mr. Hale, one of the greatest living Russian playwrights. "'Mr. Paraclete' was written," the Boston dramatic critic said, "at the apex of this Russian author's career...
...play "The Theatre of the Scul," one of the few monodramas of Evreinov which has been translated into English, he conveys to his audience the emotions of a man torn between two loves, one for a dancer the other for his wife. He employs characters of a symbolic nature such as "The Reasonable Self" and "The Emotional Self". These characters engage in a sort of Jekyll-Hyde conflict, terminating in a decision to love the dancer wholeheartedly and final suicide on the part of the "actor" whose emotions are being depicted to the audience. The entire action of the play...
...Paraclete," the chosen production of the Dramatic Club, is the exemplification of another of Evreinov's unusual ideas. He believes that the actor's mission is not merely to amuse and instruct the populace from the stage. He has a broader conception of the actor's duties and declares that the acting profession night well mingle with the common people and bring happiness and pleasure to them by supplying friendship to the friendless, and love to those without lovers...
...Introduction to Monodrama", Evreinov himself explains the fundamental purposes and aspects of his way of "thinking the theatre". "Among other things," writes the author", monodrama solves one of the most burning problems of contemporary art, namely, the problem of the chilling and paralyzing and distracting influences of the footlights. To abolish the footlights in reality, as some propose, does not mean yet to abolish them in our imagination; it must be done so that-the spectator, as if happening to find himself on the stage, that is, the place of action, will lose sight of the footlights; they will remain...