#chekhov

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Arts
fromVulture
9 hours ago

Personal Chekhov: Seagull: True Story and Uncle Vanya, Scenes From Country Life

Two productions by Russian directors in exile use Chekhov's plays to reflect on the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine.
fromVulture
1 week ago

A Production of Chekhov's Ivanov That I Wish Everyone Could See

The thing is an almost-four-hour-long continuous explosion - actors dancing, grappling, and hurling furniture; the director present onstage ripping pieces out of the set; paint and blood and flowers and feathers everywhere.
Berlin music
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

He was just trying to earn a few kopecks': how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov's silly side

Chekhov's early 1880s stories are supremely juvenile, experimental, comical, and previously untranslated, showcasing playful wordplay, nonsense names, and onomatopoeic idiocy.
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