Word: vanya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month from now until May. The Players feel that there is a definite public which will support the production of really worth while drama in Cambridge, and are offering this series of productions to prove their convictions. The other plays in the series will include Chekoff's "Uncle Vanya," Quintero's "Fortunato," and Pirandello's "Naked." "Uncle Vanya," which will be the next production, will be played on February...
...cast is excellent, bringing together Walter Connolly, as the theatre manager, and Eugene Powers,* as the father, for the first time since last season's Uncle Vanya. Eleanor Phelps, a young Vassar graduate, gives an excellent performance as the emotional elder daughter. Paul Guilfoyle (the erring son of Privilege Car) is commendably tense as the elder...
...Philip Barry's Tomorrow & Tomorrow to take the part of Bruce Ingram. Urbane Mr. Perkins, whose dramatic touch is deft and definite, is quite at home under the Harris aegis. He was the kinetic editor of the now almost legendary Front Page, also the frustrated doctor of Uncle Vanya...
...with enough character to make them convincing individuals and their dilemmas real and anguished. He has done it tenderly and surely, more surely than Eugene O'Neill in the similar explorations of Strange Interlude. The play is excellently acted. Osgood Perkins, late of The Front Page and Uncle Vanya, gives a memorable bit as the hardboiled but far from insensitive secretary of the doctor. Critics who have seen all of Mr. Barry's plays tend to pronounce Tomorrow and Tomorrow his best...
Wilbur--"Uncle Vanya". Lillian Gish, Walter Connolly, Osgood Perkins and others of the first water presenting a superb production...