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...liberal stage directors, actors and television workers have been jailed or put under house arrest. Eight actors from a theater in the Moravian town of Ostrava have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 20 months for "crude deformation" of a play by Soviet Writer Valentin Katayev. Reportedly, the actors parodied parts of the play, which is a tribute to Russian gallantry during World...
...Your Faces (TIME, March 9), an exuberant plea for individuality and self-expression, was ordered closed in February after only two performances. But his widespread popularity as the voice of a new Soviet generation has clearly survived undiminished. "His main quality is his being unfettered," writes Soviet Author Valentin Katayev in an introduction to the new volume. "The books of Voznesensky are always a depot of metaphors...
...Russians, Valentin Katayev, Viktor Rozov, and Frida Lurye, are on a 30-day visit to this country under the U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange agreement...
...Katayev labeled as a "strange interpretation" any attempt to discern in Khrushchev's recent attack on modern art any limitation on freedom of expression. "Khrushchev's statement applied specifically to art; it did not carry over to the theatre, writing, or any other area," he said. "And," quipped Rozov, "why shouldn't we argue about abstract...
Even a spoof of communism would be permitted on the Russian stage, said Katayev, but "the audience would pelt the author with apples. The public likes communism...