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...Russian writing. It is also the nursery of totalitarianism. Brodsky elaborates the point in "A Guide to a Renamed City" by contrasting two monuments. On one side of the Neva stands the "Bronze Horseman," the equestrian statue of Peter the Great. Across the river is the figure of Lenin on top of an armored car carved of stone...
Travesties is fairly solid as house productions go. The story is based upon the imaginary life experiences of a senile diplomat, specifically focusing on the year 1917 when Lenin the revolutionary, Tzara the artist of anti-art, and Joyce the self-exiled Irish writer all roved the streets of tranquil Zurich while Europe pounded out its own life blood. The humorous "what ifs" of their possible meetings or interactions are fully exploited by the witty, yet, erudite Stoppard script...
...actors playing Joyce and Lenin are completely wrong for their roles. What their actual talent level is I don't know, but it isn't high enough to make their characters believable. Perhaps the intent was comic incongruity between historic image and actual person, but it doesn't work...
...father and Mikhail Gorbachev. Wearing blue jeans and red Reeboks, Ron had the unprecedented advantage of living at the President's chateau while on assignment, causing no small consternation among the rest of the press corps. Some officials were dismayed by the flippant article he produced. Titled While Lenin Slept, it tosses out cheeky descriptions. Three KGB types are slurred as the "kind of lugs who crush walnuts on their heads because it feels good." Said one top U.S diplomat: "It was one of the most damaging things to U.S.-Soviet relations I've seen." But Playboy was pleased...
Invoking the name of the founder of the Soviet state, Yevtushenko declared, "Lenin understood that speaking out is a purifying force. Today's long- awaited striving for improvement in life gives us confidence that it will become standard behavior for citizens to speak out. We writers will not be worth a cent if we merely record and extol the public transformations that are taking place apart from us." While alluding to the strict controls on Soviet artists, the poet never once used the word censorship...