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Soon afterwards, Korean soldiers appeared from a nearby apple orchard; Roy and his platoon assumed that they were the reinforcements. Not until the newcomers were almost on top of the U.S. foxholes did the G.I.s realize their mistake: the men were heavily armed Red troops. Seeing his men outnumbered 10 to 1, the lieutenant in charge of the platoon ordered the G.I.s to climb out of their holes with their hands...
...Wisteria Trees (by Joshua Logan; based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard; produced by Mr. Logan & Leland Hayward) converts Chekhov's 19th Century Russian landowners into turn-of-the-century Louisiana gentlefolk. Thereafter there are perhaps as many subtle differences between The Wisteria Trees and The Cherry Orchard as there are obvious resemblances. The difference that matters most: The Wisteria Trees is immeasurably inferior...
...truth is that Playwright Logan has infused a touch of Yancy Loper into Chekhov, and what is heard at the end is the sound of the ax hacking the heart out of The Cherry Orchard. Yet the real trouble with The Wisteria Trees is not that it falls short of Chekhov, but that on its own terms it is so frequently blurred and limp...
...true, of course, that Chekhov's people are also types: Lopakhim, a representative of the rising business class who buys the Cherry Orchard from Larbov, is a type; but in the Russian he is drawn sympathetically, this is not true of the American. Kent Smith follows Logan's transformation faithfully and with assurance...
Many claim for "The Cherry Orchard" first place in modern drama; "The Wisteria Trees" retains a great amount of the intimacy and despair of the original. The agony of social change is sensitively drawn and despite Logan's manhandling of the adaptation, the play remains a good...