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From: The Village Voice
Date: 19970204
Author:Solomon, Alisa
Three Sisters By Anton Chekhov La MaMa E.TC. 74A East 4th Street 475-7710
Scholars have argued that Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy is embedded in Hedda Gabler, the philosophy of the Reformation in Hamlet, and Marxist analysis in The Wizard of Oz. So why not postrevolutionary Russian history in Three Sisters? On the face of it, Richard Schechner's extrapolation may seem the least far-fetched of these ideas given the way its characters look to work for salvation and speculate about the life that will come after them. "A great storm is gathering," waxes Tuzenbakh, in one of his perorations on the ...
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