It centers on three middle-aged siblings named after Chekhov characters who are uneasily negotiating with age.
The critical journey produces a series of sharp and witty observations about Chekhov's life and work.
It was only in the last few months that Chekhov and Knipper were truly together.
The imaginary letters that Olga Knipper wrote to Chekhov after he died are among the most moving.
Ones in which the characters are colder and more miserable than you (Chekhov stories, Ibsen plays, Dostoevsky doorstops)?
Knipper is often painted as an exuberant figure whose passion for the stage kept her from Chekhov's side.
It's a Chekhov-style ensemble play whose 11 onstage characters, whether they know it or not, are all leading lonely, unfulfilled lives.
Given the subjects, the characters, the actions he brings into play, we routinely feel that everything of importance is always there in Chekhov.
Like Anton Chekhov, the Russian playwright and short-story teller to whom she is so often compared, she alchemised ordinary lives into great literature.
Mr. Greenman is the author of several books of fic tion, including "Celebrity Chekhov" and "What He's Poised To Do, " both published this year.
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Thankfully, for a show that both lampoons and honors Chekhov's themes, it doesn't end with the sadness that usually dominates that revered playwright's work.
Though they only became lovers two years later, Chekhov's brief postscript marked the start of a five-year relationship that ended in July 1904, when Chekhov died.
Sir Peter Hall apologises to Downton Abbey actress Laura Carmichael after he "unintentionally disrupted" her West End debut in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the Vaudeville Theatre.
Countless modern writers have been influenced by Anton Chekhov's short stories and plays, which renounce plot-based structure, concentrating instead on the quasiabstract sketching of character and mood.
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By 1898, the 38-year-old Chekhov had moved to Yalta on the Black Sea, in the vain hope that its balmy climate would aid his struggle against his disease.
Not wishing to be bowed down by performing Chekhov, he pays for a silvery quack (David Strathairn) to remove his soul and then, a while later, replace it with that of a poet.
That's where I met John Cusack and we were doing, like, Chekhov short stories when we were 8 years old, and we had no right to do that -- just butchering them, you know?
This collection of work by Doris Lessing features three dozen of the Nobel Prize-winner's short stories, most of them, as novelist Margaret Drabble points out in her introduction, written in the realistic tradition set by Chekhov and D.
She began acting at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds before making her professional West End debut in a 1985 revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, winning the London Drama Critics' most promising newcomer award for her performance as Nina.
In 1998, for instance, Brian Friel wrote an adaptation of "Uncle Vanya" in which Anton Chekhov's quintessentially Russian tale of impoverished aristocrats at bay is translated into a subtly Irish-accented version of English in which "Well, I wish you all the best of luck!"
Durang flings all kinds of references into his word processor: Angelina Jolie, Snow White, Maggie Smith, global warming, Norma Desmond, William Penn, "Peter Pan, " the HBO show "Entourage, " Lindsay Lohan, ancient Greek drama, voodoo and, as the title suggests, a big dollop of Anton Chekhov.
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