– Marcel Duchamp’s drawing, the only one in the accompanying notes for the Large Glass, in Box of 1914, entitled To Have the Apprentice in the Sun, on musical manuscript, and duly signed, Marcel Duchamp, 1914 Anarchy is the bomb, or the comprehension of technology. Jarry puts forward a curious

Thank you Michael Pennington for recommending Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano as the “best Chekhov you could hope to see [on film], though it is not by Chekhov at all.” [Are You There, Crocodile: Inventing Chekhov, op. cit., pp. 80-1] Режиссер: Никита Михалков В ролях: Александр Калягин, Елена Соловей,

Perm (or Пермь) is 700 miles from Moscow. – Пермь [фото царской России] – Андрей Петров Калганов, его сын и его внучка. [фото царской России] take hold of what’s left of your life and save it… – Chekhov, quoted in Michael Pennington’s, Are You There, Crocodile?, p. 165 When in doubt,

It would be disingenuous of me to say that the problem, Is theatre an artform? is being presented without prejudice. I’ve already made up my mind. Now where should I look for support? and how prove it? Perhaps it’s better to ask: Is theatre not an artform? – Robert

note to self: remember that each act demands (or deserves) a different approach, a different mood, which is in the characters, as much as the characters are in it; each act is a whole play, in part. And each act feels its own sufficiency. And then is subsumed to a

– Gorky & Chekhov in Yalta [Chekhov] warned the younger writer [Gorky] against ‘rapture,’ reminding him that grace depends on expending the least possible movement on an action … – Michael Pilkington, Are You There, Crocodile? Inventing Anton Chekhov, Oberon Books, London, 2003, pp. 92-3 – the theatre on Taganka Square, in Moscow,