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...Shatrov's play works as more than a political curiosity. Staged by Robert Sturua of Soviet Georgia's Rustaveli Theater, which this month presented a striking King Lear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City, the show marks the U.S. debut of Moscow's venerable Vakhtangov Theater and of Ulyanov, its artistic director as well as its star. Although the bulky, brooding Ulyanov in no way resembles the vulpine Lenin, he and his troupe seem wholly at ease. Amid the symbolic flutters of cloth, abrupt bursts of music, caricatures of the old bourgeoisie and odd lighting shifts...
...most carefully experimental is Mossoviet. The pet theory of its director, Yuri Zavadski, is that decor usually gets in the way of actors' portrayal of what is inside the characters; his plays are characterized by uniform sets and only slight changes of properties. Vakhtangov Theater is at the opposite pole: it stresses pageantry and theatricality. Finally, the Red Army Theater has a broad base of popularity. This is, accordingly, the lightest, gayest and noisiest of Russian theaters...
...Moscow theatres, each of which has its own technical establishments and all of which perform a repertory of from four to 15 plays, Observer Houghton determined to study four thoroughly: the Vakhtangov Theatre, the Moscow Art Theatre, the Krasnaya Presnaya or Realistic Theatre, the Meier-hold Theatre. At each of these institutions he spent conscientious days backstage at schools and rehearsals. But Mr. Houghton's impressions, like a cat's eyes, become most vivid at night when he is sitting out front...
Intervention was the first play he saw at "the Vakhtangov Theatre. It was a spy story laid at Odessa in 1920, when the Reds were fighting the Whites and practically everybody else in Europe. Every Moscow theatre group has its own hallmark. At the Vakhtangov the hall-mark is a slight caricature of impersonation. "Men with long noses have very long noses, women with large hats have very large hats, thin men are very thin, fat ladies are very fat. They are a little like characters of a Peter Arno album come to life...
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