![]() Lyubov Orlova plays a part of Nora Helmer. A play “Doll’s House” of a playwright Henrik Ibsen ( Norway ). ‘Nora”, (first Orlova’s appearance – 1958). Written by French playwright Jean Paul Sartre, The Respectable Prostitute depicts the life of a prostitute and an Afro-American, one a victim of society, the other of racial discrimination, and how their lives become intertwined by fate. The Respectable Prostitute, set in the Deep South of America, is concerned with racism, subjugation and the demands of conscience. Among his best known works are La Nausee (1938), Les Mouches (1943), Huis clos (1944) and the trilogy Les Chemins de la liberté published in Penguin as The Age of Reason, The Reprieve and The Iron in the Soul. ![]() He is perhaps best remembered as the founder of French existentialism and as a man of passion, fighting for what he believed in. His friendship with Simone de Beauvoir, whom he met while studying philosophy at the Sorbonne, stretched over fifty years, until his death in 1980. Jean-Paul Sartre – one of the best-known and most discussed modern French writers and thinkers – was born in Paris in 1905. Directors – Irina Anisimova-Vulf and Grigori Alexandrov. A play “La Prostitute Respectuese” of a playwright Jean-Paul Sartre ( France ). “Lizzie McKay”, (first Orlova’s appearance – 1955). This work takes as its theme the sabotage of Soviet industry by engineers GPU agents show up in the end to arrest the evil engineers. He produced the play Somov and Others (1931). He settled down in Moscow and set to writing dramas. He was generous in his praise of Stalin, collectivization, and Soviet constrcution projects, including the Belomorsky Canal. He admitted that his position concerning the timing of the October Revolution has been mistaken and that he had underestimated the creative forces of the proletariate in revolution. In 1928, amid great public fanfare, Gorky returned to the Soviet Union. He worked as editor of Dialogue and produced the final installment of his autobiography, My Universities, and the novel The Artamonov Business. He then settled down in Sorrento, Italy. In 1921, Gorky again went abroad, seeking treatment for his tuberculosis in Germany and Czechoslovakia. Maxim Gorky, born March 16, 1868, Nizhny Novgorod, Russiaĭied Jalso spelled Maxim Gorki, pseudonym of Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov Russian short-story writer and novelist who first attracted attention with his naturalistic and sympathetic stories of tramps and social outcasts and later wrote other stories, novels, and plays, including his famous The Lower Depths. His work, which include the play The Lower Depths (1902) and the recollections My Childhood (1913), combine realism with faith in the potential of the industrial proletariat. ![]() Born in Nizhny- Novgorod (renamed Gorky, 1932 in his honour) he was exiled (1906-13) for his revolutionary principles. “Somov and others”, (first Orlova’s appearance– 1953). He later repents, but suffers serious consequences as a result. This play features an American reporter Harry Smith who disseminates disinformation about the Soviet Union. After his return, Simonov produced a play with an American theme: Russian Question ( Russkii Vopros, 1947). And he returned to the Soviet Union with a brand new Cadillac. Simonov saw New York, Hollywood, and Detroit. Simonov was sent on several trips aboard as a literary ambassador, including one famous trip to the United States in 1946 along with Ilya Ehrenburg. Lyubov Orlova plays a part of Jessie Smith. Directors – Yuri Zavadsky and Irina Anisimova-Vulf. A play of a playwright Konstantin Simonov. “Russian Question”, (first Orlova’s appearance – 1949). Roles in plays at the Academic Theatre named after Mossovet, director Yuri Zavadski Vitaly Vulf, a famous Russian art reviewer and playwright I shrieked out: "A-a!!!" She had asked: "What's happened with you?" It was Lyubov Orlova and she was 70." We had got off the elevator and she had taken glasses off. Her fugure was svelte and perfectly-formed, her legs were lovely, her clothes was fantastic. I couldn't recognize her and puzzled over the riddle: who was she? I knew quite well a lot of actresses of the Theatre but couldn't yet identify that lady. Once I had been going by elevator in the Theatre and one woman had entered the elevator. "One of my plays was produced on the stage in the Academic Theatre named after Mossovet in 1970-s. ![]() "I’ll never be older than 39, not a single day older!" (Patrick Campbell, English actress) ![]()
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