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TIME TO BURN
From: The Village Voice
Date: 20040616
Author:Solomon, Alisa
Revisiting The Lower Depths via modern homelessness
TIME TO BURN
By Charles L Mee
Manhattan Ensemble Theater
55 Mercer Street
212.352.3101
AMERICAN DEVOLUTION
A century of hindsight makes it easy to see how Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths, which opened at the Moscow Art Theater in 1902, presaged the revolutionary movement of 1905. With his unflinching portrayal of vagabonds, addicts, thieves, down-and-out workers, and fallen aristocrats who share a flophouse, Gorky depicted the burning discontent among the Russian underclass that fueled the imminent uprising. One can't blame Charles L. Mee for ...
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