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Nina Kethevan
Was Gregor's violen-playing sister in Kafka's metamorphosis and Anna in Chekhov's Ivanov in Paris. Her Adaptation of Nijinsky's journal won unanimous praise! Reviews in Le Monde, Le Figaro, Elle, New York Herald Tribune had her invited to London's National Theatre for two guest performances in english. She recalls with amusement that having repeated so many times in both French and English Nijinsky's words: "I no longer dance as before because all dancers are death so now I write" (Which she substituted for I no longer act as before), she ended up by taking her own advice and began to write. When she met Joseph Brodsky in Manhattan he was teaching at Queens College; his frenzied passion for poetry made a lasting impression on her. Both French (Dress of Fire was read in Geneva Switzerland with the title of L'Habit de Feu) and readers of her play on both sides of the ocean have referred to it as "a poem".
