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Old-World
1 Male, 1 Female
Rodion is medical head of a sanitorium where Lydia is a patient suffering from arteriosclerosis. They meet following complaints that Lydia recites poetry through the night and sings at dawn. The play follows…
Orchards - Seven Adaptions of Chekhov Short Stories
“Take seven contemporary American playwrights with highly distinctive voices and wildly differing approaches to the theater. Ask each to adapt one of Anton Chekhov’s short stories, which range…
Ostrovsky Plays 2 - The Forest & Artistes and Admirers & Wolves and Sheep & Sin and Sorrow
The Forest (1871), has two young lovers in thrall to their tyrannical elders, who are prevented from marrying until a pair of strolling actors come to their rescue In Artistes and Admirers (1881), a comedy…
Philistines
8 Male, 7 Female
Gorky’s first stage play, Meschanye, was originally presented at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1902. The story centres around a prosperous house painter and his two sons, and because of its ‘progressive’…
Platonov
Large Mixed Cast Male, 5 Female
In 1997, David Hare adapted the little-known play, Ivanov, and revealed the young Anton Chekhov as a markedly different writer from the one English-speaking audiences recognize from the more familiar plays.…
Plays by Anton Chekhov - The Wood Demon & The Seagull & Three Sisters
Chekhov on The Wood Demon ... “In the play I portray a disgusting, selfish, provincial fellow who for twenty years has been reading works on art but understanding nothing about the subject - a man…
