Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fate of The Seagull suggests, the very nature of Chekhov's art has often made his plays difficult to produce. Critic Keith Neilson has noted that Chekhov saw reality not as a series of dramatic climaxes, but as a mundane process of day-to-day living in which the crucial events happen unobtrusively in the background. Thus, though The Seagull includes a failed and successful suicide, a seduction, an abandonment, and the death of an infant, all of these melodramas occur offstage--mostly between the third and fourth acts. What we are shown instead is the residue of these events...
...global peace and disarmament on the one hand, and global nuclear holocaust on the other. With the nuclear genie out of the bottle, it is all but impossible to put it back. Mankind cannot hope to "reinvent politics: to reinvent the world," as Schell proposed last year in The Fate of the Earth. National sovereignties are too entrenched and global consensus too elusive for Schell's "utopian vision" to be realized...
...play crap-master Nathan Detroit's seedy sidekicks Nicely-Nicely and Benny, and Dave Eastman, who portrays high stakes Chicago gambler Big Julie, all turn in memorable performances. Sagawa and Alexander, clowas throughout the show, pull out all the stops in the title song as they bemoan the fate of their boss and any other guy who falls for a doll. Eastman's bellows of "Let's shoot crap!" are worthy of the evilest mobster, and the dance numbers are energetic and enthusiastic...
...Adelaide, Nathan's finance of 14 years, and in another cast would garner high praise. She does well on her solo "Adelaide's Lament," and it is only when she shares the stage with Hughes that her charm begins to fads. The Hot Box chorus line suffers a similar fate. Their adequate cabaret numbers get lost in the shadows of the splendid acting...
...from East Timor. All of these reports indicate that guerrilla activity was much higher in 1982 than in 1981 or 1980. In other words, the people of East Timor--who are ethnically different from the Indonesians and do not share the same history--have by no means accepted their fate of being the 27th province of Indonesia...