Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maggi-Meg Reed, in the female lead, is every bit Sellon's match. Reed plays the four women Littlechap uses and hurts most: Evie ("Typically English"), Anya ("Glorious Russian"), Ilsa ("Typische Deutsche"), and Cinnie ("All-American"). With a twist of her scarf, she switches her personality from loud and abrasive to cute and cuddly, and remains fascinating at every turn. Even when she stays on stage during a transition, she never drops out of character. Reed's vocal range and ability to simulate several dialects are also extremely impressive...
...Beatitude, the Most Reverend Theodosius, Archbishop of New York, Metropolitan of All-America and Canada. Theodosius, 44, was born Theodore Lazor, the son of a Slavic immigrant who worked in a steel plant in Canonsburg, Pa. (pop. 11,400), for half a century. The election of the last primate, Russian-born Metropolitan Ireney, in 1965 exposed a division between Russian speaking elders and younger members anxious to Americanize the church...
...first ballot, a second vote is held to propose two contenders; the church's rune ruling bishops then choose one of them to be the primate. In 1965 a U.S.-born candidate got the most votes, but failed to gain the necessary two-thirds majority, and the predominantly elderly, Russian-born bishops turned instead to runner-up Ireney, a bishop in New England. In choosing a successor to Ireney, now 85 and ailing, the delegates in Montreal nearly gave a first-ballot victory to Hartford, Conn.'s, popular Bishop Dmitri, a Texas-born, former Baptist who converted to Orthodoxy...
Theodosius, who graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pa., and St. Vladimir's, the church's growing seminary in Crestwood, N.Y., is not fluent in Russian. An open, easy man, whose main passions besides the church are music, gardening and cars, he is more a pastoral than an intellectual churchman. Among other assignments, he revived once-flagging Orthodox parishes in Alaska, where the Russian mother church set up its first North American outpost in the 18th century...
...return, passing by candlelight through the darkened halls of Adams underground tunnel. This prelude is only the beginning of the surprises that producer-director Peter Sellars '80 claims to hold in store for anyone who participates in this version of the story done with cue cards but acted in Russian. With the promised "cast of thousands," the intricacies of Russian politics built into the play, and Sellars as director, what, other than surprises, could we expect to expect? Performances are Friday and Saturday at 11 p.m. Admission is free...