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Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино (1976)

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, Евгения

laying the situation bare and leaving judgement up to us is not enough

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,

refining crack: the process

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

to self: STOP STOPPING! (a note about a dramatic act)

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

ТЕАТР НА ТАГАНКЕ (cf. the Wyly theatre)

– 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, former

how do you like your actor your puppet your doll? rigid or soft? Plushie or Anatomically correct?

Can a mask have vision? We know it can grant vision and produce spectacular effects. But without eyes, can a mask have vision? – Mask, Ferdinand Khnopff, c. 1897 We know eyes as an answer to the problem of light. Humanists make the distinction, moralising, that men and women walk in

Residual/Vestigial (neither sublime, nor quintessence or essence)

Residual would be the word I was looking for in the previous post, in which Duchamp’s infra-mince is again at work… …or David Byrne’s sound that never leaves a theatre… – knee play 1, drawing by Robert Wilson …from the knee plays… – for the CIVIL warS, Robert Wilson, the