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...UNCLE VANYA, another Chekhov favorite, will be staged by Harold Clurman with a cast that includes Richard Basehart, Joseph Wiseman, Ruth McDevitt and Pamela Tiffin, at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles...
Compared with this, his theatrical output was rather small. His eminence and influence have come, really, from only four plays--the last four: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. It is not correct, as often claimed, that Chekhov became interested in the theatre only in his last years. In his youth, in fact, he enjoyed quite a reputation as an actor in both professional and non-professional undertakings, which gave him a good deal of practical knowledge of the stage...
...long after his death, in the Soviet period. In his late twenties, he turned out Ivanov, a flawed but great and vastly underrated work capable of packing a tremendous wallop in performance; and the tentative, transitional The Wood Demon, which later also provided much of the plot of Uncle Vanya...
...necessity of hard work and hope. The play has a moderately upbeat ending -- though many don't seem to realize it. The Three Sisters is not a tragedy (a label Chekhov never used: it, like Ivanov, is a "drama"; The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard are "comedy"; Uncle Vanya is called "scenes from country life"). The Three Sisters is two parts pathos and one part comedy. Much in the play is funny, much is witty--and Kahn has not let this get obscured...
...SUNFLOWER AS BIG AS THE SUN, by Shan Ellentuck (Doubleday; $3.95). Uncle Vanya is a most lovable-and most effective-teller of tall tales. Everything he says about his sunflower comes true; it grows and grows, completely shutting out the sun from the small Russian village. When he finally tells the truth, the sunflower shrinks back to normal size and everyone celebrates. The illustrations are colorful and peasant in feeling...