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Young Chekhov - (Faber Drama) by Anton Chekhov (Paperback)

Young Chekhov - (Faber Drama) by  Anton Chekhov (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Anton Chekhov is one of the undisputed masters of world drama. He is usually thought to hide himself behind his characters and stories, keeping his own personality well off-stage. But when he was young he wrote three plays -- <i>Platonov</i>, <i>Ivanov</i> and <i>The Seagull</i> -- which, with their thrilling sunbursts of youthful anger and romanticism, reveal a very different playwright from the one known by his mature, more familiar work. <p/><i>Young Chekhov</i> brings these three blazing dramas together in versions by internationally acclaimed dramatist David Hare, offering the chance to explore the birth of a revolutionary dramatic voice. The plays show a writer freeing himself from the constraints of nineteenth-century melodrama and herald the shift into the twentieth century and the birth of the modern stage. <p/>The <i>Young Chekhov</i> season premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the autumn of 2015.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Anton Chekhov, </b> Russian dramatist and short-story writer, was born in 1860, the son of a grocer and the grandson of a serf. After graduating in medicine from Moscow University in 1884, he began to make his name in the theatre with the one-act comedies <i>The Bear</i>, <i>The Proposal </i>and <i>The Wedding</i>. His earliest full-length plays, <i>Ivanov </i>(1887) and <i>The Wood Demon </i>(1889), were not successful, and <i>The Seagull</i>, produced in 1896, was a failure until a triumphant revival by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898. This was followed by <i>Uncle Vanya </i>(1899), <i>Three Sisters </i>(1901) and <i>The Cherry Orchard</i>(1904), shortly after the production of which Chekhov died. The first English translations of his plays were performed within five years of his death. <p/><b>David Hare</b> is a playwright and filmmaker. His stage plays include <i>Plenty</i>, <i>Pravda</i> (with Howard Brenton) <i>Racing Demon</i>, <i>Skylight</i>, <i>Amy's View</i>, <i>Via Dolorosa</i>, <i>Stuff Happens</i>, <i>South Downs</i>, <i>The Absence of War</i> and <i>The Judas Kiss</i>. His films for cinema and television include <i>Wetherby</i>, <i>The Hours</i>, <i>Damage</i>, <i>The Reader</i> and the Worricker trilogy: <i>Page Eight</i>, <i>Turks & Caicos</i> and <i>Salting the Battlefield</i>. He has written English adaptations of plays by Pirandello, Chekhov, Brecht, Schnitzler, Lorca, Gorky and Ibsen. For fifteen years he was an Associate Director of the National Theatre.

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