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Chekhov's tears.(Literature)(Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard)
DON'T GO to the theatre. Don't even go out. Just find a chair, stop the music, and read Chekhov. For some reason he's better on the page than on the stage--probably because the Russian playwright was greatly gifted, while most directors and actors are not. So don't go out: stay home where Chekhov belongs.
In town not long ago there was a Russian production of Uncle Vanya with a haystack hanging in midair. The director was evidently of the Why Not? theatrical school:
A: Do you think we could have a flying haystack?
B: Where?
A: Up there in the sky!
B: Sure--why not?
After which the director suspended a bundle of straw ...
- Works of Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Chekhov, Anton January 1, 1963 700+ words
Chekhov, Anton Monarch...01-1963 The Cherry Orchard Introduction For...up the pen. The Cherry Orchard took Chekhov three painful years...Stanislavsky's reading, Chekhov said: "Is this really my Cherry Orchard? Are these my...
- Open house: onscreen, and in a new production of Chekhov's the Cherry Orchard,...
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Magazine Gardetta, Dave February 1, 2006 700+ words
...production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Bening stars...But The Cherry Orchard is a true...leisure class. Chekhov wrote the play...him and The Cherry Orchard is what's...unconscious, Chekhov is a precursor...
- The sensuous Chekhov. (analyzing three versions of Anton Chekov's 'The Cherry...
- Magazine article from: American Theatre Haff, Stephen April 1, 1994 700+ words
Anton Chekhov, a doctor, once said...in a room with us. What Chekhov interpreters make of the...regional productions of The Cherry Orchard: at Cleveland's Great...WE GO, IN SEARCH OF THE CHEKHOV EXPERIENCE. Great Lakes...
- BROOK'S 'THE CHERRY ORCHARD' A PROFOUNDLY MOVING PRODUCTION
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Kevin Kelly, Globe Staff March 27, 1988 700+ words
THE CHERRY ORCHARD -- Play by Chekhov, English translation...carpets, "The Cherry Orchard" has no visible...but the estate Chekhov talks about...place, but Chekhov was dealing...history. "The Cherry Orchard" is universal...
- The Cherry Orchard Sequel.(Theater review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Thielman, Sam February 26, 2008 700+ words
...Ularu's "The Cherry Orchard Sequel" takes...begun in Anton Chekhov's masterpiece...beginning of "The Cherry Orchard Sequel," set...of the 1904 Chekhov play, throws...and the end of Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard." Ularu fleshes...
- THIS 'CHERRY ORCHARD' MORE THAN RIPE FOR THE PICKING.(U)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) February 15, 2006 700+ words
...new production of Chekhov's ``The Cherry Orchard,'' directed...staged ``The Cherry Orchard'' with equally...dollop of humor. Chekhov, it will be remembered...construction of ``The Cherry Orchard'' is Chekhov artfully preparing...
- That which is lost: 'The Cherry Orchard' & 'The Winter's Tale'.(Stage)(Theater...
- Magazine article from: Commonweal O'Reilly, Mollie Wilson March 13, 2009 700+ words
...double bill, Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (in a new translation...resist.) Both The Cherry Orchard and The Writer...the past: in Chekhov's play, a family...nursery (just as Chekhov directs for The Cherry Orchard). But he also...
- The Cherry Orchard. (Majestic Theater, New York)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Hodgson, Moira February 27, 1988 700+ words
...as fundamental to Chekhov as those pauses are...characters in The Cherry Orchard, which was Chekhov's last work, written...the magnificient cherry orchard to make way for a...but this was not Chekhov's intention. Lopakhin...
Source: HighBeam Research, Chekhov's tears.(Literature)(Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard)