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`Little Tragedies': Pushkin's Moral Booster

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19981210
Author:William Triplett

The Stanislavsky Theater Studio's production of Alexander Pushkin's "The Little Tragedies" features some of the most dazzling stage images to be found in a Washington theater right now. Strikingly stylized, the production creates a visual language that is richly sensual. While the tragedies under scrutiny are little indeed, they gain stature with this often startling staging.

Pushkin is best known as the 19th-century Russian romantic poet whose verse made Russian a literary language (his predecessors and contemporaries usually wrote in French). As a dramatist, he makes his greatest claim ...

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