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Drama / Characters: 9 male, 6 female
Scenery 2 Interiors / 1 Exterior
This poignant story of three provincial sisters who long with
all their hearts to go to Moscow is classic theatre which has
featured many of the world's great actresses and actors in the
roles of Olga, Masha, Irina and Vershinin.
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The Seagull (Paperback)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Translated by Iliffe
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R372
Discovery Miles 3 720
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A masterpiece of modern drama, The Seagull dramatises the romantic
and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingenue Nina,
the fading actress Irina, her son the symbolist playwright
Konstantin, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin.6
women, 7 men
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
For Madame Ranevskaya, her cherry orchard is more than just land;
it is her childhood, her memories and her life. Returning for the
first time since her young son drowned there, she must come to
terms with the fact that in order to free her family of debt the
cherry orchard must be sold, the trees must be cleared and she and
her family must prepare for life beyond the orchard. This touching
and often hillarious play exercises the perfect balance of comedy
and tragedy, through the characters, relationships and observations
of society.
Spring 1903. Russia, And the cherry orchard is up for sale. Lyuboy
Ranevskaya ran away to Paris five years ago after her only son
drowned. Coming back to her beloved childhood home, she's faced
with a mound of debts and an impossible decision - lose the family
estate or carve up the land for summer holiday cottages. Lopakhin,
the wealthy son of a former serf on the estate, sees a
money-spinning opportunity and urges her to consider his scheme.
But to Lyubov, the magnificent cherry orchard means everything.
Written in 1904, The Cherry Orchard was Chekhov's last great comedy
of life. This new version by Samuel Adamson was first produced by
Oxford Stage Company on a UK tour and at London's Riverside
Studios, with Geraldine James as Lyubov and Trevor Fox as Lopakhin.
Three Sisters, set in a rural backwater of Russia at the end of the
nineteenth century, is a play about dreams, hope, work and love.
The sisters of the title dream of returning to Moscow, where their
lives, they are certain, will be happier; in the meantime, the
eldest and youngest, Olga and Irina, seek solace in work and the
middle sister, Masha, married to the local schoolmaster, embarks on
a hopeless but passionate affair with Vershinin, commander of the
local army battery. Years pass, and their brother Andrei's wife,
Natasha, slowly but inexorably ousts Olga and Irina from their
family home as well as draining all life and hope from Andrei
himself. At the end, rootless and loveless, the sisters face a
bleak future with only one certainty: we cannot understand life, we
must just endure it. Christopher Hampton's version of Chekhov's
classic tragicomedy captures both the light, comic naturalism of
its dialogue and the poetic melancholy of its atmosphere, a firm
sense of the play's period balancing perfectly with a very modern
clarity and economy of expression. It premi red at the Playhouse
Theatre in 2003 with Kristin Scott-Thomas, Robert Bathurst, James
Fleet and Eric Sykes among a distinguished cast.
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The Seagull (Paperback)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Translated by Mike Poulton
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R370
Discovery Miles 3 700
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Konstantin writes an avant-garde play for his beloved Nina to
perform. His mother, Arkadina, a successful actress of the
traditional school, and her novelist lover Trigorin, attend the
first performance - and the meeting of Trigorin and Nina sets in
train a series of tragi-comic events which leave no-one unaffected.
Mike Poulton's adaptation of the Chekhov classic is fast-moving and
funny; his ear for the rhythms, non sequiturs and tangential nature
of real speech make it accessible, actable and indisputably
modern.-6 women, 7 men
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Uncle Vanya (Paperback)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Translated by Mike Poulton
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R370
Discovery Miles 3 700
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Mike Poulton's revised translation of Uncle Vanya was presented at
The Print Room, London, in March 2012. In his introduction to the
text he writes, "It's a measure of the greatness of this play that
while translations lose their power, the original never does. It
grows more moving, more gripping, and funnier on each reading. The
more one works closely with it, the more secrets it reveals."4
women, 6 men
Glasgow, 1890. Andrew Baird calls upon Flora McNeil to settle a
debt owed by her late husband. It is a bank holiday, however: no
money! Baird is determined and refuses to leave; Flora has to
resort to violence. Pistols are brought out for a duel; but first,
Baird must teach her to shoot...1 woman, 2 men
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Stories of Men (Paperback)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Translated by Paula P. Ross
bundle available
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R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Many of Chekhov's short stories, translated into English during the
early years of the 20th century, do not retain the slavic flavor of
the originals. Ross' translations reverse this trend. The stories
focus on the development and unique existence of the male the
trials and tribulations of adolescence, maturity, and old age.
Chekhov masterfully takes complicated emotional experiences and
presents them with his characteristic intensity and clarity,
allowing readers to vicariously share the experience. His prose is
truly poetic.
Stories of Men begins with "Volodya," a boy on the brink of
independence, caught in an undercurrent of social displacement, who
makes an irreversible mistake. Chekhov's stories of youth including
"A Confession," "The Proud Man," and "The Guardian," a tale of
artistic game-playing are full of comedy, inordinate vanity, and
self-realization. Many of these very early stories were published
in comic magazines under pseudonyms. Later his stories mature as do
the characters in "Fear," "Promotion Preliminary Examination," and
"The Wager," a political comparison of capital punishment and life
imprisonment. Though only in his forties, Chekhov was ready to
contemplate death in "A Tedious Tale."
Ross has made these works more accurate and accessible to the
contemporary reader, while maintaining Chekhov's original intent of
illustrating how time and circumstances can change men. With
thirteen stories only now being presented to the English-speaking
world, Stories of Men will excite all who love this classic
writer's work.
In this, his third adaptation of a Chekhov play, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author David Mamet offers a contemporary, highly
accessible version of Chekhov's The Three Sisters. Working from a
literal translation by Vlada Chernomordik, Mamet has rediscovered
the characteristically modern chords in this powerful play and
breathes new life into a timeless classic. This is Chekhov rendered
in direct, colloquial language marked by Mamet's finely tuned ear
for dialogue.
The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, and
Irina, young women of the Russian gentry who try to fill their days
in order to construct a life that feels meaningful while surrounded
by an array of military men, servants, husbands, suitors, and
lovers, all of whom constitute a distraction from the passage of
time and from the sisters' desire to return to their beloved
Moscow.
"Mamet's ear is famously impeccable, the dialogue is always
authentic and convincing.... This adaptation] will help to
undermine our silly critical notions of 'definitive' Chekhov. Mamet
has made me rethink the play," said Robert Brustein in The New
Republic of Mamet's adaptation of The Cherry Orchard. And the
Chicago-Sun Times called it "audacious, consistently arresting."
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The Seagull (Paperback)
Jean-Claude Van Itallie; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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R315
Discovery Miles 3 150
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Uncle Vanya (Paperback)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Dario Fo; Translated by Vlada Chernomordik
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R419
Discovery Miles 4 190
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Dramatic Comedy / Characters: 5 male, 4 female
Scenery: Interior/Exterior
This classic imparts an indelible picture of Chekhov's Russia
and of his rich, bittersweet and deeply human characters.
"Blessedly free both of Slavisms and of up-to-date
colloquialisms." -New York Times
"Simply wonderful." -Boston Globe"Mamet's adaptation is true and
faithful to the Russian master in both tone and content." -Cape Cod
Times
"Three Sisters" is Anton Chekhov's dramatic play written in 1900
and first performed in 1901. The story concerns the lives of an
aristocratic family, the Prozorovs, who struggle to search for
meaning in the modern world. The three sisters, Olga, Masha, and
Irina, along with their brother Andrei, are living in a small
provincial town, yet they long to return to the urban
sophistication of Moscow where they grew up. Chekhov's "Three
Sisters" brilliantly depicts the lives and aspirations of the
Prozorov family as they struggle to contend with the decline of the
privileged class in Russia at the turn of the 20th century. A
classic of Russian drama, "Three Sisters" is considered one of
Chekhov's major works and remains one of his most popular plays.
The Cherry Orchard is the story of a mortgage, with the grounds and
beautiful trees of the proud landowners going for sale at a public
auction to pay off their debts to the boorish son of a peasant who
has risen in the world. Mme Ranyevskayas family departs to take up
their lives anew, leaving the old and forgotten Firs to die alone
as the woodsmens axes thud ironically against the cherished trees.
Anton Chekhov's short novels are here brought together in one
volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the
award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story,
also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. "The
Steppe-the most lyrical of the five-is an account of a
nine-year-old boy's frightening journey by wagon train across the
steppe of southern Russia to enroll in a distant school. "The Duel
sets two decadent figures-a fanatical rationalist and a man of
literary sensibility-on a collision course that ends in a series of
surprising reversals. In "The Story of an Unknown Man, a political
radical plans to spy on an important official by serving as valet
to his son, however, as he gradually becomes involved as a silent
witness in the intimate life of his young employer, he finds that
his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in
startling ways. "Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies
in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant,
engaging time as a narrative element in a way unusual in Chekhov's
fiction. In "My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position
for a life of manual labor, and the resulting conflict between the
moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human
nauture culminates in an apocalyptic vision that is unique in
Chekhov's work.
In these five short novels, Chekhov's masterful storytelling and
his profound understanding of human nature are brilliantly evinced.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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Platonov (Paperback, Main)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Adapted by David Hare; Translated by David Hare
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R365
Discovery Miles 3 650
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In 1997, the celebrated contemporary playwright David Hare adapted a little-known play called Ivanov, and in doing so revealed the young Chekhov as a markedly different writer from the one English-speaking audiences were familiar with. Now Hare has produced a streamlined new version of Chekhov's freshman drama Platonov, an abandoned seven-hour manuscript in which Chekhov recasts Don Juan as a Russian schoolmaster. Again, we encounter a great writer who is funnier, more exuberant, and more wildly romantic than anyone expected.
This collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov contains The Lady
with the Dog, Ward No. 6, The Black Monk, Anna on the Neck, The
House with the Mezzanine, and In the Ravine. This is a
dual-language book with the Russian text on the left side, and the
English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are
precisely synchronized. See more details about this and other books
on Russian Novels in Russian and English page on Facebook.
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