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...Keith Dewhurst...
...satirizing the experience of adapting The White Guard for the Moscow Art Theatre. The text resurfaced in 1965 and had its first Russian publication under the title A Theatrical Novel. The publication of an English translation under the title Black Snow ensued in 1967, followed ultimately by Keith Dewhurst's adaptation of the English novel into this play. The premiere production of a play that's only a year old but has been germinating for 60 years should and does feel momentous...
Black Snow, in its plot, form and characters, feels highly disjunctive, and very unfinished. Perhaps it should, since Bulgakov left the novel unfinished and Dewhurst only frames, but does not finish or conclude, the story. For all its moments of brilliance, and for all the justifiable explanations of its weaknesses, Black Snow catches the eye, but it ultimately fails to engage our imaginative sympathies...
...knew that it was time to deal with what we saw as a moral issue." Equity president Colleen Dewhurst says in Equity News. "But once we went beyond Mr. Pryce's application and exploded into the issue of whether or not Mr. Pryce had a creative right to play this role, we then invaded an area in which we do not belong--ever--and that is the question of our denying anyone freedom to make an artistic choice--good, bad or indifferent...
HAMLET. What do you do if your parents are George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst? If you are Campbell Scott, you go into the family business, appear on Broadway in Long Day's Journey into Night and on film in Longtime Companion, then scale the actor's Everest in this stirring production at San Diego's Old Globe Theater...