Word: vakhtangov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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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