Word: ivanov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor is not merely a play, but a play for actors and orchestra, and therein lies the trick. One of the two main characters, the mad Ivanov (John Wood), believes that he owns an orchestra, and is put in a Soviet insane asylum...
When a new man, Alexander (Eli Wallach), comes to share his cell, Ivanov complains because his coughing spoils the diminuendos. Of course, so far as the audience is concerned, Ivanov does own an orchestra, in this case the 105-member Pittsburgh Symphony, which sits center stage and follows his every command. His lunacy determines even the title of the play: "Every good boy deserves favor" is a mnemonic phrase to help music students remember the notes on a treble clef staff...
...Davydov, second secretary at the embassy; Victor F. Isakov, counselor; Vladimir A. Vikoulov, attache; Vadim Kuznetsov, an embassy official; Stanislov Kondrahov, an Izvestia reporter; Ikav Zavrazhnov and Alexander Kokorev, both embassy secretaries; Andre Kokoshin, librarian; Anotole Kotov, attache; and Embassy Officials Alexander Ereskovsky, Vladimir Trifonof, Alexander Rozanov and Valeri Ivanov...
With the Russians, nothing comes without its price. In this case, the price was the inclusion of 13 Russian paintings from Leningrad's State Russian Museum. They are something of a revelation. Alexander Ivanov's Water and Rocks Near Palazzuola, painted in the early 1850s, is a strongly constructed landscape that Courbet could have admired...
Accompanied by 200 friends and sympathizers, the painters arrived about noon to set up their exhibit in a vacant lot surrounded by bleak new apartment towers. As they began putting canvases on improvised wooden stands, a man who called himself Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (the Russian equivalent of John Doe) announced that he was leading a group of volunteer workers to turn the site into a "park of culture." At a signal from Ivan, the burly "volunteers" began grabbing paintings, ripping canvas and splintering frames. At another signal, several handy bulldozers and dump trucks roared to the site and began churning...