Two Plays
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher :
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 1912
Category :
ISBN :
Chekhov
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
Curt Columbus endows these timeless dramas Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and Cherry Orchard with dialogue that is faithful to the russian original but dazzlingly attuned to contemporary audiences.
The Cherry Orchard, and Other Plays
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1775413683
Book Description
The Cherry Orchard was written by Chekhov as a comedy, but directed by Stanislavski as a tragedy on its premier. The play has maintained the dual nature of these intentions ever since. An aristocratic family return to their estate on the eve of auction. Though alternatives present themselves, the family is apathetic and their property is sold. The play addresses the vast changes to the Russian social casts at the time, and the general cultural futility experienced by the aristocracy and bourgeoisie in their shifting roles.
Chekhov for the Stage
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 1992-12-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810110489
Book Description
While the influence of Chekhov in modern theater worldwide, and especially in America, has been immense, translations into English have tended to be too literary and have not communicated the full emotional power and precise attention to detail of Chekhov's Russian. Milton Ehre began translating Chekhov's plays to provide professional theaters with performance texts that capture the feel and rhythms of spoken, rather than written, language. Chekhov for the Stage is the first publication of his revised versions of The Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, and The Sea Gull. Ehre's sensitive renderings of these classics make this volume the translation of choice for performers and directors, teachers, and the general reading public.
The Cherry Orchard
Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802130020
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, in this unique adaptation of one of the great masterpieces of the theater, allows us to see Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" in totally new and surprising ways. As Mamet explains in his introduction, he views the play "as a series of scenes about sexuality and, particularly, frustrated sexuality" rather than about a dying Russia. The result, said 'The Sentinel,' "blows a gust of fresh air into the old play" while the Chicago Sun-Times called it "audacious [and] consistently arresting." "Mamet the adaptor has turned Chekhov's Cherry Orchard into a Mamet play. Mamet's ear is famously impeccable, the dialogue is always authentic and convincing . . . . This is a tribute to its strong point of view and clear point of departure. If nothing else, it will help to undermine our silly critical notions of 'definitive' Chekhov. Mamet has made me rethink the play." - Robert Brustein, 'The New Republic'
The Cherry Orchard
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1559368721
Book Description
Stephen Karam is known for his dedication to exploring the idiosyncrasies of human speech and behavior -- the subtleties, the depth, and the awkward minutia. With this new adaptation of Chekhov’s canonical masterpiece about a family on the brink of bankruptcy, Karam's fluid style finds a harmonious fit with the work of the master playwright.
The Cherry Orchard
Author : Donald Rayfield
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 1994
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Book Description
Chekhov assigned a personal way of speaking to each character, divorcing consequence from action, cause from effect. Despite the controversy generated by its paradoxical nature, however, The Cherry Orchard has become a milestone in twentieth-century drama.
Chekhov's Plays
Author : Richard Gilman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780300072563
Book Description
Eminent critic Richard Gilman examines each of Chekhov's full-length plays, showing how they relate to each other, to Chekhov's short stories, and to his life. Gilman places the plays in the context of Russian and European drama and the larger culture of the period, and the reasons behind the enduring power of these classic works.
Three Sisters
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Book Description
The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, young women of the Russian gentry who try to fill their days in order to construct a life that feels meaningful while surrounded by an array of military men, servants, husbands, suitors, and lovers, all of whom constitute a distractions from the passage of time and from the sisters' desire to return to their beloved Moscow.
The Cherry Orchard
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571277691
Book Description
Hear what I have to say about the cherry orchard, because it is mine. I say bring it down, tear it down. Smash it down and tear it down. Watch, watch. Just you watch. I will build holiday villas, as far as the eye can see. I will build a place for everyone to come and enjoy. For the future. And this will be the future. A new life. A new way of life. Here! Come now and play. Play. Play! Get the band to play. Ranyevskaya returns more or less bankrupt after ten years abroad. Luxuriating in her fading moneyed world and regardless of the increasingly hostile forces outside, she and her brother snub the lucrative scheme of Lopakhin, a peasant turned entrepreneur, to save the family estate. In so doing, they put up their lives to auction and seal the fate of the beloved orchard. Set at the very start of the twentieth century, The Cherry Orchard captures a poignant moment in Russia's history as the country rolls inexorably towards 1917. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov in a version by Andrew Upton, premiered at the National Theatre, London, in May 2011.
