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...National also augmented a solid season by sending productions to the West End. Its own stages offered Athol Fugard's poignant The Road to Mecca and an over-the-top rendition of Gogol's antibureaucratic satire The Inspector General. The cheeriest West End offering is a charming revival of Guys and Dolls starring the pop singer Lulu. But the most exciting theatrical experience in London is a trio of full-length plays originated at the Cottesloe, The Nativity, The Passion and Doomsday, that retell the Bible, accenting the life and death of Christ. The language comes from the alliterative, rhyming...
...French, British, and Russian History and Literature concentrator at the College, Blumenfeld found himself under the tutelage of now-legendary Russian history scholar Richard Pipes. Pipes, the Baird Professor of History Emeritus, guided Blumenfeld through his undergraduate years, an academic journey that culminated in his thesis, “Gogol and Russian Censorship...
...crazies, a bit of a circus. A universal smorgasbord." That he's delivered. By the end of the first week, there were the usual hits (The Overcoat) and misses (Night Letters). The former, a piece of bravura theater-making from Canada, mixes Buster Keaton with Gogol and - after seven years on the festival circuit - purrs like a Rolls-Royce. Letters, the State Theatre Company of South Australia's new four-hour adaptation of Robert Dessaix's intimate novel about a writer's "death" in Venice, looks good but wobbles without a suitably dramatic engine. And with some of the most...
...What tends to get overlooked…is world literature: Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, Proust,” he says...
This outcry is common in Lahiri’s work. For so many of her characters, the difficulty of acclimating to a new lifestyle, so different in attitude and custom from their own, is troubling. Thus naming Gogol in The Namesake becomes all-important; without his grandmother’s name, the child will be truly cut from his Bengali roots...