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Each of the three Prozorov sisters, living in a provincial Russian town of the last century, suffers from disappointment and disillusion. Masha, wed to an absurd pedagogue, finds, only to lose, her true love, Colonel Vershinin; Olga, the eldest, is doomed to spend the dreary minutes of her existence as a high-school superintendent; and Irina, the youngest, hating her provincial life, no longer able to "remember the Italian for window or ceiling," sees her last chance for escape disappear when her fiance is killed in a duel...
...national portraiture as well as a discriminating study of individual frustration. Each of the three Prozorov sisters, living in a provincial Russian town of the last century, suffers from disappointment and disillusion. Masha, wed to an absurd pedagogue, finds, only to lose, her true love, Colonel Vershmin; Olga the eldest, is doomed to spend the dreary minutes of her existence as a high-school superintendent; and Irina, the youngest, hating her provincial life, no longer able to "remember the Italian for window or ceiling," sees her last chance for escape disappear when her fiance is killed in a duel...
...life; his Act III soliloquy, which in less capable hands could have become bathetic, is exactly right. Ruth Gordon is an extremely lifelike Natasha, so lifelike in fact that one comes from the theatre hating her thespian guts. And Judith Anderson turns in a finely turned performance as Olga, bearing her neurosis ably. Miss Cornell, The Lady With the Manner, is as wonderful as ever. Although the play has no one outstanding role, Katherine Cornell's Masha in black habit and, mood makes the most of her propensity to sorrow, and even her third act rageful exit is distinguished...
Five decades had brought to it almost every great theater figure from Ellen Terry to Helen Hayes. On its stage Sarah Bernhardt played in Camille, Olga Nethersole in Carmen, Mrs. Fiske in A Doll's House, Julia Marlowe in When Knighthood Was in Flower, William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes, Katharine Cornell in The Barretts of Wimpole Street...
Britain's "Sagittarius" (real name Olga Katzin) has a nasty knack of rhyming world political events into their proper perspective. Her parody of Poe's The Raven was given documentation last week by events in Italy...