Nazi Death Camps, A-Bomb Collide in Russian Drama: John Simon
The Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg brings us -- courtesy of New York's Lincoln Center Festival -- "Life and Fate," an adaptation by its famed director Lev Dodin of Vasily Grossman's novel of that grandiose title. "Maly" in Russian means "little," but nothing about this 4-hour traversal is little, even if one might wish it were.