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Until then, there is plenty else to divert mind and, with the Currier House Dance Marathon, body. Last year's hugely successful Cultural Rhythms celebration returns to Sanders Theatre on Valentine's Day. The American Repertory Theatre has four productions, including works director by the Soviet director Yuri Lyubimov and by the Italian satirist Dario...
Baryshniknov is not the first prominent defector to receive feelers from Soviet officials about returning. Last week Ballerina Natalia Makarova got a similar offer from Grigorovich. The Soviets have also approached Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Novelist Vasily Aksyonov and Theater Director Yuri Lyubimov. Grigorovich noted that there is a new "atmosphere of openness" in the Soviet Union. Said he: "We now have a wise leader who is loved by the whole country...
...strip at the back wall that hints of someone peering in from behind. This Crime and Punishment is equally about the social injustices of the old Russia and the arrogance of the new Soviet state, and finds a continuity between them in their lack of Christian charity and love. (Lyubimov, a lifelong believer, wore rosary beads under his clothes in the Soviet Union. Now he carries them openly and touches them often...
...Lyubimov was inspired to stage his original Moscow version, he says, by reading the essays of schoolchildren, an extract from one of which provides the coda to the show: "So, Raskolnikov was right to murder the old woman. Too bad he got caught." In Lyubimov's view, the child was echoing the amoral views of a teacher and, in turn, the state. An attentive father who travels everywhere accompanied by his second wife Katya, a Hungarian, and son Piotr, 7, Lyubimov will next mount an adaptation of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard...
Soviet Director Yuri Lyubimov makes a blazing U.S. debut with Crime and Punishment. -- Mary Tyler Moore shines in Sweet...