The Washington Post, November 21st, 1989
Yuri Kosikh has been acting on the stages of Moscow for years. Never has he had a role that came quite so easily as Ivan Denisovich. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn's prototypical prisoner in Stalin's labor camps-a simple man in an unreal place-Kosikh needed only to "listen to my inner voices." His head shaved clean as a peach, his face a mask of amazement, Kosikh says he heard the voice of his father ringing in his head, the voice of a father who had spent "a dime"-10 years-in one of the Stalin-era camps along the Kolyma River in the Far East. "I've played Chekhov, Shakespeare, every kind of role,"...
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