Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...making a great sacrifice for peace when it gives the support which is being proposed. We can now go before the Court with a dispute if the other party agrees. The 48 other States, have been kind enough to arrange that for us, as they did for Germany and Russia and Turkey. But it is not being suggested that we agree to use the Court. It is suggested only that we agree to help to maintain it, that we agree to pay some $40,000 a year to help to pay its bills. We should gain the privilege of participating...
This time these theatrical rum-runners are going to smuggle into our dry dramaturgic desert some 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...
...dinner table scene in the boarding house and in the uproarious final carnival. The former director of the "Gay Theatre for Grown-Up Children" and of the so-called "Cracked Looking Glass" set the style for the free theatre which Meyer hold and others have carried on in Soviet Russia, and though he has himself shaken the dust of Leningrad and Moscow from his feet and wanders an exile through the Caucasus and in Paris, Evreinov still knows how to keep us amused in the same fanciful way. Evreinov, the musician who had for his music master Rimski-Korsakov...
...reality in its place. Unlike the Buddhist who finds this new reality in Nirvana or the assimilation of the will we 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...
...Quintessence" was written in an attempt to show in the language of the theatre that such a mission can be achieved by the theatre and to accomplish his purpose Evreinov has emphasized a very subtle and at times tantalizing technique. While the play supposedly takes place in Russia actually it takes place somewhere on the border land between reality and unreality. It is a will-o'-the wisp sort of a play eluding our grasp just at the moment we attempt to put our finger on it. It is like the moon on a mackerel-sky with the white clouds...