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Chekhov in Yalta

A truly Chekhovian comedy filled with wit, style, and passion.

Los Angeles Star News

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: 1900-1910
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Distinguished Playwriting
    Winner! American Theatre Critics Citation
Confined in his villa at Yalta by illness in April of 1900, Chekhov receives a delightful visit by the Moscow Art Theatre. They have embarked on a provincial tour with the express purpose of persuading Chekhov to give them his latest play.

Noteworthy characters include Stanislavski, Valdmir Nemirovich Danchenko, Gorky, Ivan Bunin and actress Olga Knipper who Chekhov, a confirmed bachelor, contemplates marrying even as he acknowledges his advancing consumption.

The play is criss crossed with amorous triangles, battles of ego, high spirits and melancholic languor reminiscent of Chekhov's work.
REVIEWS:

A truly Chekhovian comedy filled with wit, style, and passion.

Los Angeles Star News

Characters

  • Casting: 7M, 4F

  • MASHA CHEKHOV - 30s. Anton's unmarried sister and housekeeper.
    FYOKLA - 21. Chekhov's maid.
    ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV - 40. Writer and doctor.
    MAXIM GORKY - 30. Writer of the people. Living in Yalta to treat his consumption.
    IVAN ALEXEIVICH BUNIN - 31. Popular writer of aristocratic descent. Summering in Yalta.
    OLGA LEONARDOVNA KNIPPER - 30s. Leading lady of the Moscow Art Theatre.
    VLADIMIR NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO - 39. Co-director and business manager of the Moscow Art Theatre.
    LUZHKI - Mid-thirties. Fat, sentimental actor of the Moscow Art Theatre.
    MOSKVIN - Late twenties. Young, acrobatic character man with the Moscow Art Theatre.
    LILINA STANISLAVSKI - 31. A delicate beauty and wife of Stanislavski. Ingenue and costume designer for the Moscow Art Theatre.
    KONSTANTIN SERGEIEVICH STANISLAVSKI - 37. Co-director and artistic force behind the Moscow Art Theatre.

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    Confined in his villa at Yalta by illness in April of 1900, Chekhov receives a delightful visit by the Moscow Art Theatre. They have embarked on a provincial tour with the express purpose of persuading Chekhov to give them his latest play. Noteworthy characters include Stanislavski, Valdmir Nemirovich Danchenko, Gorky, Ivan Bunin and actress Olga Knipper who Chekhov, a confirmed bachelor, contemplates marrying even as he acknowledges his advancing consumption. The play is criss crossed with amorous triangles, battles of ego, high spirits and melancholic languor reminiscent of Chekhov's work.

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