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ECHELON by Mikhail Roschin...
...national anthem and then that of the U.S. This salute to theatrical detente came about through the zealous effort of Nina Vance, founder and longtime head of Houston's Alley Theater. On a cultural exchange mission to the U.S.S.R. in May 1977, Vance was particularly impressed by Mikhail Roschin's Echelon and the way in which it was directed by Galina Volchek, head of Moscow's Sovremennik Theater and a noted actress as well. Vance prevailed upon Volchek to restage the play in Houston, and this is the first time in U.S. theatrical history that an American...
...Roschin can touch the heart, but he also smothers its beat in interminable bouts of rhetoric. If a character says, "We are all in this together," rest assured you have not heard the line for the last time. He can achieve piercing moments of self-revelation, only to resort to vaudevillian bits of bawdry or sink into bathos...
Echelon is dedicated to Roschin's mother. As a boy (he is now 44), he rode with his mother on one of the special trains allocated by the Soviets to evacuate women and children to the east. An ingenious boxlike contraption, open-sided toward the audience, creates the impression of a cattle car in which the animals happen to be human...
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