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Webster begins on such a stagy note that he loses the chance to move the audience, making it one of the less-compelling chunks of this mostly amusing evening of seldom-performed Chekhov.
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No authorial comment has been more widely noted than the request of Chekhov that his plays be performed as comedies.
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The Cherry Orchard written by Chekhov is a comedy, but not a comedy of traditional sense.
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‘Their crimes,’ Chekhov remarks, looking at these supposedly hardened recidivists, ‘were no more clever and cunning than their faces.’
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Completing the programme is a revival of Ashton's La Valse, his elegant demonic setting of Ravel's titular score, and Winter Dreams, Kenneth MacMillan's concentrated adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters.
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Chekhov's short story ‘Peasants' harrowingly captures the nastiness, brutishness and shortness of life in a village of the time.
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The critical judgments are venturesomely banal ( "In countless variations, both fictional and dramatic, he studies illusions destined sooner or later to be shattered against the trivialities of everyday life"), and the psychological probings, full of self-congratulatory assumptions about Chekhov's motivations, unconsciously resemble, at times, Nabokov's parody of the "scholar" who writes the bogus preface to Lolita.
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Chekhov recounts how his horse-driven tarantass, an uncomfortable springless carriage, almost collided with three post troikas racing in the opposite direction, drivers asleep at the reins - it was nearly a fatal collision.
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Chekhov's life straddled two epochs of Russian history.
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He did several set designs for the left-wing Unity Theatre, including productions of Shaw's The Applecart, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Arthur Miller's The Crucible, the last employing a non-realistic design separating the stage with cheesecloth screens.
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A ? ? time theme ? ? is always implied in the metaphysical connotation layer of Chekhov's psychological works.
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Most American short story writers are bad because they copy "O. Henry," and most English short story writers are bad because they copy Chekhov.
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This is Chekhov's contribution to Russian literature.
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Chekhov's wry humour and dead-on powers of observation are a perfect fit with the clown-inspired style of Toronto's Theatre Smith-Gilmour.
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Now Blake Morrison turns his attention to Charlotte, Anne and Emily in a new adaptation, produced by Northern Broadsides, which offers more than a nod to Chekhov's The Three Sisters, which is believed to have been inspired by the Brontës and their brother Branwell, who frittered away his early promise.
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Together with Chekhov, they played piquet, frequented the Taverne Gothique for oysters, or the Casino Municipal for entertainment.
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So now I'm bogarting a hundred camels for my wannabe Chekhovian slices-of-life film?
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Granted, Chekhov's name is not synonymous with comedy, but this work shows he has a lighter side.
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Chekhov became an interpreter of the underneath life through small observations and comical imitations of daily life even as his characters appear to be cut off from inwardness.
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Chekhov's childhood was overshadowed by his father's tyranny and religious fanaticism.
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Great writing for the theatre, be it Shakespeare, Chekhov or Miller, fuels and invigorates the performer as it's being spoken.
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Chekhov, wrote Nabokov, ‘keeps all his words in the same dim light and of the same exact tint of grey, a tint between the colour of an old fence and that of a low cloud’.
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Her plays contained Chekhovian echoes, as her friends and colleagues have noted; at least for me, they also evoked a Shavian kind of moral imagination and challenge, but with too much humor, warmth, and regret — too much life — ever to seem formulaic or austere.
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The virtue of this production is that it reminds us that most of Chekhov's characters are solitaries trapped inside their own skins.
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Chekhov hoped to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation.
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The result is a game of spot the allusion, with the final mass exodus dictated more by Chekhovian precedent than any kind of political logic.
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Olga Knipper-Chekhova reeled back in shock and collapsed behind the curtain in confusion and terror.
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This is Chekhov's contribution to Russian literature.
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Indeed, when looking at the catalogue of Baby Cow's bleakly funny programmes – Marion and Geoff, Human Remains, Nighty Night, Sensitive Skin, Sarah and Lizzie – one could scarcely find a better description of them than Chekhov's own words for his subject matter: "the sad comicality of everyday life".
Chekhov Shorts: 'I'm Ivan Nyukhin, aha!'
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Chekhovian memories also abound, adding cobwebs to the old manse in Ballybeg in and outside of which most of the action seethes.
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Chekhov died in Badenweiler, a German spa town which he described to his sister as ‘desperately boring’.
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'Constance Garnett translated 73 volumes of Russian literature, which included Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Herzen and many others, but translating Chekhov gave her more pleasure than any other work'
Constance Garnett by Edna O'Brien
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This is Chekhov's contribution to Russian literature.
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Director Reid Davis and his cast turn in a decent effort, but this adaptation is just a bit more stageworthy than the bulk of lugubrious versions that melodramatize Chekhov.
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That the tautness among these four grows steadily throughout the play, however, renders the crisis static and unobtrusive, and in this light the play's structure invites comparison to Chekhovian dramaturgy.
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Her career has included stage roles in plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen.
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He plays the blankly charming hero against her sinister clown with squeaking, Chekhovian shoes.
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You can't help wondering why a company that whittled Hamlet down to 90 minutes needs two-and-a-half hours for a relatively obscure Chekhov story.
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Yet Chekhov's instinct was not misplaced: he had to extend himself physically, in an epically pedestrian manner, in order to win clarity for himself as a writer.
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At one time, he studied Chekhov, and Keneally achieves that tone of self-deprecation and detachment and the same hard-edged observations and insights.
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ( 1860 - 1904 ) was the master of Russian literature at theturn of the 20 th century.
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Most American short story writers are bad because they copy "O. Henry," and most English short story writers are bad because they copy Chekhov.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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The story - based on an Isak Dinesen tale but emerging as very watered-down Chekhov - concerns a noblewoman, Vanessa, who awaits the lover she hasn't seen for twenty years.
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Garnett translated 73 volumes of Russian literature, which included Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Herzen and many others, but translating Chekhov gave her more pleasure than any other work.
Constance Garnett by Edna O'Brien
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To me he is the British answer to Chekhov.
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No authorial comment has been more widely noted than the request of Chekhov that his plays be performed as comedies.
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Alan Ayckbourn claims Chekhov's great tragi-comedy about love, desire and regret among his favourite plays, so it's a brave move to take it on and give it an English twist.
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