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...Chekhov's plays extraordinary things usually happen in the most ordinary ways. Not so in the revival of The Cherry Orchard at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center. Director Andrei Serban emblazons even quite ordinary moments with extraordinary stage effects. Symbolic figures stalk in and out, backgrounds loom hugely, movement flows into patterns and tableaux. The results are bold, sometimes beautiful, but only partly successful...
...Serban's best images effectively magnify the play's conflict between the old order and the bright new world that is its doom: a frieze of peasants laboring beneath modern telegraph wires, a group of aristocrats watching the setting sun silhouette a factory on the horizon. But this kind of staginess can also be distracting: an imposingly literal set of cherry trees all but overruns a house in Act I; a little girl bearing cherry blossoms self-consciously tiptoes into the old servant Firs' death scene. The high, deep stage-space forces the cast to play...
Even outside the conference hall, there was no companionship between the factions, and no gaiety. Most delegates had modest accommodations in second-rate hotels (France's Daniel Mayer shared his room with four colleagues). Only the Rumanian delegate, Serban Voina, had a room in Zurich's best hotel, the lovely, luxurious Baur-au-Lac, whose terraces descend gently to Lake Zurich. Nevertheless, Zurich looked like another Eden to the delegates from poor, hungry countries. Said France's Salomon Grumback: "This city is so clean, you almost become dizzy...
Other in the cast include Misses lynN bakeR '46 and Eveline Rabut. The men are Eric Neff '46, Jack H. Marshall '44, Serban Vallimarescu 1G. Phillip J. Wiener 1E and Jacques Abreu...
Sedgewick Minot '45, Jerome Minot '46, Serban Vallimarescu 1G, and Jean Guier '46 are among those scheduled to talk. The meeting, strictly informal, will be held in the Leverett House Junior Common Room at 8 o'clock...