Word: raevskaya
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SENELICK uses the conventional style but he restricts it to one group of characters, primarily the downtrodden landlords, Raevskaya (Marilyn Pitzele), her brother Gaev (Bro Uttal) and their adopted daughter Varya (Janet Leslie). The style becomes part of the dramatic action of the production. It is a hot house aristocratic style of life and acting; constantly undercut on one side by a rude bourgeois frankness (played with 20th century realism) and on the other by a broad comedy, which is often the symbol and mockery of unclutered peasant bumpkinry...
According to Authoress Yurlova's tale, she left her home in Raevskaya at 14 followed her father, a Colonel of Cossacks, to the War. She never found him, but enough else came her way to keep her busy. A kindly Cossack fitted her into a uniform, had her hair cut and soon she was doing a soldier's share. Twice recommended for the Cross of St. George, she was wounded, captured by Kurds, shellshocked. When the Revolution broke the Bolsheviks caught her in a hospital at Kazan, threw her into prison. Rescued by Czechoslovaks who had joined...
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