Methuen Drama, 1997

Modern Plays

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 40, Roles: Total (17), Female (5), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...Ivanov is a man paralysed by existential ennui; his self-loathing is by turns ridiculous and pathetic, as Chekhov’s first completed play whips between farce and tragedy. Ivanov is deep in debt and out of love with his wife...

Faber and Faber, 2008

Faber Drama

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (18), Female (9), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Only a year ago, the landowner Nikolai Ivanov was full of energy and optimism, in love with his wife and working hard. Now, for no reason he can understand, Ivanov is overcome with inertia and self-disgust. His wife is dying and he feels...

Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (17), Female (5), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...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 - Platonov...

Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (17), Female (5), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...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 - Platonov...

Methuen Drama, 2004

Modern Plays

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (15), Female (5), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...In Chekhov’s tragicomedy of inertia and loss – perhaps his most popular play – an aristocratic family cling to their sheltered lives in a picturesque estate while the forces of social change beat on the walls outside...

Faber and Faber, 2009

Faber Drama

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (12), Female (5), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Liubov Ranevskya, a widowed landowner returns home more or less insolvent after five years abroad. Everything appears just as she remembers, but hers is a diminishing world. Her vast and beautiful cherry orchard is soon to be sold off...

Oberon Books, 2017

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (7), Female (5), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Pembrokeshire, 1982. Things are going to change. This radical reworking of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard places the action in early 80s Wales, at the dawn of another revolution – the Thatcher regime. Bloumfield sits...

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...For learning resources, visit this page. Age recommendation: 14+ Recorded through National Theatre Live on 30th June, 2011. Ranyevskaya returns more or less bankrupt after ten years abroad. Luxuriating in her fading moneyed world...

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...Chekhov’s masterful last play, The Cherry Orchard, is a work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family and their struggle to maintain their status in a changing world. Alternately touching...

Faber and Faber, 2007

Faber Drama

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (13), Female (5), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...I know now, Kostya, I understand that in our work – doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing – what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure...

Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (13), Female (4), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...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 - Platonov...

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...Age recommendation: 12+ The Seagull is part of the Young Chekhov trilogy of the playwright’s early work, adapted by David Hare. The trilogy opened to overwhelming acclaim at the Chichester Festival in 2015 and transferred to the National...

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...Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull is considered one of his most haunting and atmospheric character studies. A would-be playwright is at war with his egoistic mother while the town has become intoxicated by a sensational author...

Faber and Faber, 2016

Faber Drama

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (12), Female (4), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Three sisters, Orla, Marianne and Erin, dream of escaping their tedious suburban lives for a fresh start in America. It is Erin’s eighteenth birthday and, as the sun shines and guests assemble, everything for a fleeting moment feels...

Oberon Books, 2018

Oberon Modern Plays

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (4), Female (4), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...RashDash take on Chekhov in this reimagining of the classic play that brings the women to the forefront. “I'M GOING TO PHILOSOPHISE MY HEAD OFF.” How should I make the most...

Oberon Books, 2019

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 4

...Chekhov's iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria in this bold new adaptation. Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their father. Months before...

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...Age recommendation: 12+ This co-production with Fuel Theatre was captured on 4th December 2019. Nigeria, 1967. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their father. Months before, two ruthless military coups plunged the country...

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...A full-cast performance of Chekhov’s masterpiece starring Jennifer Westfeldt, Tessa Thompson, Sarah Zimmerman and Jon Hamm. Meet Olga, Masha, and Irina, warm and cultured young sisters who were reared in the exciting hubbub of Moscow...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Student Editions

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Anton Chekhov’s painful drama of purposeless lives was rewritten from an earlier unsuccessful play called The Wood Demon (1889). Uncle Vanya was first seen in Stanislavsky’s production at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1899...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...‘It’s often said that the best of the Chekhov plays is the one you’ve seen most recently. Uncle Vanya doesn’t have a suicide, like The Seagull, or an adulterous couple and a dual more or less indistinguishable from murder, like Three...