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N. Side theaters revive 2 dramas by Maxim Gorky

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19901004
Author:Hedy Weiss

In a way, it's an odd time for a revival of the works of Maxim Gorky. For if the Russian Revolution had one novelist and playwright who most personified its idealistic spirit, Gorky was the man. And idealism about the long-term effects of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe certainly is at an all-time low at the moment.

But Gorky (1868-1936) was a humanist as much as a dogmatist, and his plays are teeming with wonderful characters and insights into human nature and Russian life. And that, as much as anything, probably explains why one of his large-scale works, "Yegor Bulichov ...

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