Word: telyegin
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...then his job is easier. He grates on everyone, he demands attention and energy from all, and his presence, like that of a great brooding ogre, hangs over the stage when he is off it. Among the one-dimensional characters, Gloria Maddox's Sofya, and Bruce Kornbluth's Telyegin are well put-together too, (though someone ought to get Kornbluth a balaika and get rid of that Everly Brothers-vintage guitar he's stuck with), and Gertrude Crippen's Marina is excellent...
...seem to be alive to all the intricacies of her part. It is impossible to gather from her behavior in Act I that she and Sofya have been antagonistic--and this must be clear by Act II. She has the same half-smile for Astrov, for Vanya, even for Telyegin, when he protests at her forgetting his name. As a result, her dialogue drags; one feels surprise, instead of quiet uneasiness, when her relations with the others are made clear...
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