Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have concert engagements in America and Australia for several years, and am obliged to carry them out. I left Russia without a cent and found it necessary therefore to sell my soul to the devil. Yes, I sold it, and it is not my fault. As soon as I fulfill these contracts, I hope to be able to accept your invitation to come to Moscow and Leningrad...
...play of traded identity has appeared and will probably disappear rapidly. It is not what is technically known as "good theatre." It is not very well played. All of which is a misfortune, for the play had excellent possibilities. A healthy tramp kills a wealthy hermit and steals his soul. He thereupon falls in love with the girl the dead man loved...
...there has been a deal of unnecessary mystification, much of it "bunk" about this "theatre theatrical" about "the theatre of the soul" and "the souls of the theatre", about Monodrama and Melodrama, about Impressionism and Expressionism, about Physico-psychology and Psycho-analysis, about all the clashing symbols of the sexy saxophone. "Lampy" is justified in his jests about those followers of the Dramatic Club who take all this jargon too seriously. The fact is Evreinov himself preaches that nothing in life is to be taken seriously. That is his cardinal principle. His play is none of these "-isms...
...formula. He realizes only too well that under present stage conditions the field for the monodrama is essentially limited. As a result while he has written volumes expounding his theory, in actual practice he has produced only two plays to demonstrate what he means, namely. "The Theatre of the Soul" and "The Representation of Love". "Mr. Paraclete", rechristened in the program as "Quintessence" can not strictly speaking be termed a monodrama...
...this dull existence of yours, in a word, if I have succeeded in amusing you I have fulfilled my mission as a good showman. My job is to amuse not to instruct. Nay, more. If I have succeeded in bringing laughter in your heart and strange wonder in your soul I have given you greater instruction than you could possibly get in your churches or your academies. For the secret of life is in its illusions and one good laugh is worth more than a thousand philosophies...