Word: realisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strong stuff from Russia and give us for once a draught of the newer Russian vintage. Heretofore most of us have had a chance to taste Russian drama only through the beautiful but already somewhat old-fashioned and dusty museum pieces of the Moscow Art Theatre and the "twilight realism" that comes from the lower depths of Gorki's subterranean cellar or from the cherished charm of Chekhov's cherry orchard. Now at last we have a whack at a play by the most active leader in the revolt against all this realism, by that dare-devil of the Russian...
...everything: religion, revolution, crime. For Evreinov the theatrical and the real are irrevocably intertwined: "the actor is the spectator and the spectator actor". If in the hectic rehearsals now going on in Brattle Hall, it seems at times uncertain whether Mr. Massey is trying to play the piece as realism or as fantasy, that very ambiguity is perhaps in keeping with the border line spirit of Evreinov himself for whom life is the theatre and the theatre life
...Realism vs. Expressionism...
...must achieve it by a transformation of the will, by a new creation. Evreinov carries over the factional strife between the realistic and expressionistic theatre in Russia to the field of life itself. If all the world is a stage it is at best a realistic stage and all realism is bad. The Manager of the Universe, whoever he may be, is managing His Stock-company very badly. Two thousand years ago He has put on a beautiful play but having had such a long run it is time to build a new theatre. Let us, therefore, enter into competition...
...lips; what sort of noise a banana would make did the observer devour it with his ears. Last week Harry Grindell-Matthews, British inventor of the "death-ray" (TIME, June 2 & 9, 1924, SCIENCE), demonstrated certain devices with which he had turned theoretical flippancies of the dilettanti into mechanical realism. It is of course an impossibility to rearrange the human nervous system so that one kind of sense impression is substituted for another, but it is quite within the scope of science to turn light into music, sound into color. His instrument, called the "luminaphone," releases light from a series...