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...Louis Lappin Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 production). Even if our government was no longer CHEKHOV AND THE involved in covert and overt military ac- tivities in Latin America, Spaid36 AMERICAN IMAGINATION would serve...

...Richard Gilman Copyright © Theater 1993 1993 Following Chekhov Richard Gilman A respectable if rather drab and characterless district near the center of Moscow on a gray Sunday 75 morning in March of 1989. I’m standing with my new friend...

...Margaret Gray Copyright © Theater 1994 1994 Productions Uncle Vanya Mysteries and Smaller Pieces Barking at Chekhov spoke...

...Murray Biggs The Chekhov Theatre: A Century of the Plays in Performance by Laurence Senelick 1997: Cambridge University Press BOOKS The woman who emerges from her own MURRAY B I GG s notes and letters is caught...

...Gary Jay Williams Copyright © THEATER 1979 1979 Theater in Washington Stoppard, Chekhov and Clark Gary Jay Williams I was probably too vulnerable, but I seem. Stoppard's bauble disintegrates In a ing the cell...

...Laurence Shyer During the summer of 1980, Andrei Serban was invited to Japan by Keita Asari to direct The Sea Gull for the Shiki Theater Company of Tokyo. In the fall he returned to the United States and directed a second, and quite different production of Chekhov's play for Joseph Papp...

...Laurence Senelick Copyright © THEATER 1991 1991 THE DEPARTMENT OF MISSING PLAYS, CHEKHOV DIVISION LAURENCE SENELICK f only Chekhov had written more great plays than his...

... I Chekhov’s best critics tend to agree that he is essentially a dramatist, even as a writer of short stories. Since the action of his plays is both immensely subtle and absolutely ineluctable, the stories also are dramatic in Chekhov’s utterly original...

...Richard Gilman Copyright © THEATER 1991 1991 IVANOV: PROLOGUE TO A REVOLUTION RICHARD GILMAN y plot is unprecedented," Chekhov an Author, Brecht's Baul or Beckett's...

...Rocco Landesman Anton Chekhov, Directed by Andrei Serban, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York Copyright © Yale/Theatre 1977 1977 Comrade Serban in The Cherry Orchard By Rocco Landesman Anton Chekhov Directed by Andrei Serban Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York...

... are always right. When Erland Josephson's Gaev sniffs the air around him while reparing to leave his sister Ranevskaya's estate during Chekhov's breathless coda to The Cherry Orchard. he asks, "What is this smell of herrinfl" In an instant, recognizing the source...

... weakened and show, Chekhov writes about a lines seemed to echo the sufferings of sometimes almost entirely character in his situation: Iuanou; Ivanov, the Chekhov protagonist eliminated in order to facilitate while Havel writes about the situation whose story commenced the season...

... powerful of these tableaux in His preference for open spaces and a minimum of set Yefi-emov’s production came after Ivanov told Anna that she pieces runs counter to the lavish, naturalistic sets that are was going to die soon. Anna slowly walked upstage in the the Russian tradition for Chekhov...

... how theater work was to the Chekhov dramas he different Gorky was from both admired and hated: the characters are mainly from the petty bourgeoisie; that is, Chekhov. they have moved beyond their traditional fields of work in business and the crafts to become part...

... times. I reread Chekhov’s text to double check. He never actually shoots himself on stage. All of a sudden I am not sure about my...

..., literally On the Bottom). This was a little over a year By Harold Segel after the first performance of Chekhov’s. The Three Sisters and two years before...

...- Republic, Negrin addresses the au- vote supporting the contras, Spain/36 pleted the cast of 17 in the L.A. 96 production). Even if our government was no longer CHEKHOV AND THE involved in covert and overt military ac- tivities in Latin America, Spaid36...

...Una Chaudhuri Copyright © Theater 1994 1994 Works Cited Benjamin , Walter Illuminations . Translated by Zohn, Harry. New York: Schocken Books, 1968 . Chekhov , Anton Four Great Plays by Chekhov . Translated by Garnett, Constance. New York: Bantam Books, 1958...

..., though, when you asked me, I thought of the possibility of doing a play in verse. A poem in a sense is a verbal play. It’s part of a mono- logue: a certain character speaks - that’s the idea of a poem. You once said that you don’t like Chekhov. Why? I’m just punning here, but he’s...

... more critical ques- Laurance Rudic’s objection to an extended re- tions than it has space to address. (The same hearsal period that it “exhaust[s] all the possi- author’sAnton Chekhov,his 1985 contribution to bilities: leading “to a rigid, repetitive type of the Macmillan Modern Dramatists...