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YALE REP IMPORTS 'IVANOV' WITH MIXED RESULTS

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19901003
Author:Kevin Kelly, Globe Staff

IVANOV

Play by Anton Chekhov, adapted and

directed by Oleg Yefremov. Set by David

Borovsky. Costumes by Jess Goldstein.

Produced by the Yale Repertory Theater.

At: University Theater, New Haven,

through Oct. 13 NEW HAVEN - The idea is direct enough. Import an established Russian, Oleg Yefremov of the Moscow Art Theater, to direct one of his specialties, Chekhov's "Ivanov," with seasoned American actors, among whom is a celebrated star, William Hurt. Behind the idea is, of course, an assumption. The reciprocity will result in an exchange of "Russian-ness," a closeness to Chekhov an American ...

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