Word: masha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cheryomushki district, where huge apartment buildings are being erected to relieve the housing shortage. Included in the cast are a construction worker, a museum guide, an old man who stubbornly refuses to leave his apartment in "Warm Alley" for the new development, and a married couple named Sasha and Masha, who are forced to kiss goodnight each evening and retire to their separate dwellings. Eventually all the characters get apartments in a triumph over the bureaucratic housing director and his scheming wife...
Miss Blanchard, as the sister Masha who carries on an adulterous and eventually doomed love affair, turns in a mature and persuasive performance. Not only does she know how to use her voice, but what is more important she catches the rhythm of Masha's speeches and shows how the woman suffers. As Baron Tusenbach, Thomas Teal shows himself as accomplished a technician as Miss Blanchard, and projects a wholly appropriate mixture of agony and nobility...
...Phoenix production was weakest toward the end, where the play itself is; and in the most crucial scenes, it pulled Chekhov down rather than kept him afloat. This was sometimes a matter of interpretation, but oftener one of acting. Maureen Stapleton's Masha came closest to an entirely right performance, while Montgomery Cliffs Kostya at the outset, and Judith Evelyn's Madame Arkadina pretty much throughout, also scored...
...much clothing (including underwear "trimmed with lace and embroidery"). three times as many shiny new pots and pans to cook twice as much meat and fish, twice as much candy and ice cream. In 1956, clothes will fit, machines will work; there will be lipstick and perfume for Masha, cigars for Ivan...
...along cucumbers and milk, hollowing out the cucumbers, cup-fashion, to drink the milk. In haying season, the whole family would pitch in, mowing and stacking with the peasant boys. It led to temptations. "Last night I could not sleep for a long time. Before I went to bed Masha had told me a number of incidents of her affair with young Paul, the gardener's boy. How frightful... Of all the lofty, fine things Papa tells us she has taken just what suits her-namely, that all men are equal...