Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IVANOV. Chekhov's first full-length play takes the pulse of a life-sick anti-hero consumed by boredom and narcotized by talk, the opiate of the Russian gentry. John Gielgud's acting and direction somewhat jangle the playwright's night music of the soul, but not enough to drive away a lover of Chekhov's genius...
...childhood into the world of intellectuals and artists. He records with touching candor the delight he felt when as an adolescent he first wandered into the studio of a famous sculptor and discovered a stunning new society that honored the body as fervently as his father had honored the soul...
IVANOV. Chekhov's first full-length play takes the pulse of a life-sick anti-hero consumed by boredom and narcotized by talk, the opiate of the Russian gentry. John Gielgud's acting and direction somewhat jangle the playwright's night music of the soul, but not enough to drive away a lover of Chekhov's genius...
...Soul & Heels. When Miller's drama was first performed in 1949, the public pronounced it pretty strong stuff. But the jet age and the Great Society have intervened, and the traveling salesman may some day go the way of rent control and the propeller-driven plane. Many viewers who tuned in to CBS's Xerox special were just curious to see whether the play had gone out of style since its premi...
...hadn't. Salesman was never meant to be a documentary, and its X-ray examination of a man who is going under has kept it from becoming a period piece. Willy Loman, the salesman whose soul is as worn as his heels from his mindless pursuit of the American dream, is as pathetic today as he was 17 years ago. As his faithlessness to his wife and himself backfires and eventually destroys him, the play takes on the proportions of Greek drama, and Miller's point drives itself home: the common man can suffer a king-size tragedy...