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Instead of shrinking from the play's preposterous involvements and broadly comic scenes. Director Guthrie and his cast seize them, hug them, and waltz them right into the present. The transformation is aided by brilliant modern costumes, both Voguish and roguish, designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch; Shakespeare in tails seems no more anachronistic than Shaw in a toga, and at times quite as cynical. The play's "Florentine Widow" becomes a wonderful old madam catering to the occupation forces; Helena's choosing a husband is turned into a charming kind of debutante cotillion; and the scene in which...
...TANYA MATTHEWS...
...Tanya Matthews makes abundantly clear in Journey Between Freedoms, such a flight would be the answer to many a Russian maiden's prayer. Though told with small art and smudged with restatements of the obvious, her autobiography does serve one significant purpose: it tells the day-to-day story of many thousands of Tanyas who cannot tell their...
...Must Be Proletarian." Tanya was three years old when the Russian Revolution started. One of her first experiences was hunger. "For months and months our diet . . . consisted of yellow maize flour, which was made into thin soup, thick porridge, or small buns. When the pangs of hunger became very acute, we ate a handful of raw, uncooked flour. It tasted sweet, but one got hiccups afterward...
...What do they do with their newspapers?' I asked myself." When the secret police found out that she was picking up both American friends and the English language, they asked her a personal question: Would she spy, "for her country," on all the people she knew? Panicky, Tanya eloped with a Russian movie cameraman she scarcely knew, in order to get out of town. The marriage dragged on for awhile in overcrowded communal apartments and abortion clinics, ended in divorce...