A Chekhov Quartet: Two Plays and Two Short Stories Translated and Adapted for the StageTaylor & Francis US, 1996 - 44 من الصفحات First Published in 1996. Translated from Chekhov's short plays and adapted from his stories by Vera Gottlieb, this collection consists of four one-act plays. Short though they are, each contains a whole range of dramatic possibilities and presented together the plays form a coherent programme, offering performers and audiences an intimate theatrical experience ranging from high comedy to sombre analysis. Both student and professional actors will find an opportunity to display all their powers of invention, characterisation, timing, audience control, concentration and finesse. A Chekhov Quartet has been performed in London, Moscow and at the 1990 Chekhov Festival in Yalta |
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actor adapted Adjusts his waistcoat Alexander Alexei audience boarding-school boredom boring Boris Godunov Brian Roberts Chekhov one-acters Chekhov Quartet Chekhov's short stories Cherry Orchard clown damn daughters dear dramatisation dressed dressing-room edited by John emotional range Eugene Onegin everything fade Farewell Fool's cue goes Gottlieb Harmfulness of Tobacco Helene Zumbrunn Irene Slatter Ivan Ivanovich John Freedman Volume King Lear Kolya laughs live look Lope de Vega MASTER THE GOVERNESS mean monologue Moscow Hamlet Moskve music school Nikita Ivanych Nikitushka Nikolai Erdman Nyukhin old age Pause Petrushka Pinter prompter's Punch and Judy Pushkin's Queen of Spades Razmaznya remember rubbish Russian Theatre Archive scarecrow Shouts St Petersburg stage stuffing stupid SVETLOVIDOV Swan Song Calchas take some telephone talent talking tears Testov's There's translated and edited uncultured upstage Vagankov cemetery Vasil Vasilich Vasil Vasilievich What's wife Yawning Yegorka Yulia Vassilievna