Word: pepel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theatre, the tendency was to make them focal, to play for the star. A perfect cast in almost every case was that of Saturday afternoon. Ivan Lasareff as the actor, Giorgi Burdzhaloff as Kostilyoff, Vera Pashennaya as his wife, and Nina Litovtseva as Anna created unforgetably fine characterizations. The Pepel of Peter Baksheieff, while it was exceptional in its way, seemed out of tune with the playing of the rest of the company...
...stage mob that I have ever seen. There was limitless life to it. Characters, regardless of importance, had individual "business" to do. The scenes that remain indelibly on the mind after seeing "The Lower Depths" were the one in which Luka hid to hear the discussion between Vassilisa and Pepel. Luka's praying by the bed of Anna, and the amazing beginning of the fourth act when there are three groups on the stage playing games and singing, and there is life and vitality and beauty in each one of the groups...