Anathema. Like most Russian plays, Anathema is a plunge into the basic mysteries and contradictions of life, but Andreyev (author of last season's Theatre Guild success, He Who Gets Slapped) works with symbolized, metaphysical ideas instead of with the raw material of actual life from which Chekov and Gorky draw.
Anathema is the Inquiring Spirit, the Searcher after Truth, who goes to the gates of Heaven to ask God what his weights and measures are for determining Justice. When God tells him that he would not understand, that the divine values are...
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