Ivanov

by Anton Chekhov, Richard Nelson (Translator), Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)

Overview

The eighth title in TCG’s Classic Russian Drama series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781559369923
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	11/01/2022
Series:	TCG Classic Russian Drama Series
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Anton Chekhov (1860—1904), Russian physician, dramatist and author, is considered to be one of the greatest writers of short stories and modern drama. Born in Taganrog, a port town near the Black Sea, he attended medical school at Moscow University. He began writing to supplement his income, writing short humorous sketches of contemporary Russian life. A successful literary careered followed, before his premature death of TB at the age of 44. He is best—remembered for his four dramatic masterpieces: The Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1899), Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904).

David Harrower is a Scottish playwright, based in Glasgow. His first play, Knives in Hens, was premiered at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre in 1995. Subsequent plays include Kill the Old Torture Their Young, Presence, Dark Earth, Blackbird, and 365. Harrower has also written adaptations including The Chrysalids, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Ivanov, and Woyzeck. Translations include The Girl on the Sofa, a translation of the Jon Fosse play as well as Schiller's Romantic tragedy Mary Stuart.

Editorial Reviews

"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."

New Yorker

The director wanted 'a language that would sound, in the mouths of American actors, as fresh and vivid as the original Russian.' Schmidt succeeds. Slang and modern idiom are woven almost seamlessly into the script.

Time Out (San Francisco)

Schmidt's translation has a lean, sharp, sorrowfully funny style...

Sacramento Bee

A play often patronised as an immature melodrama, one that Chekhov himself described as "a pudding", has the quirkiness, the subtlety, the unpredictable touches of human truth we associate with the great works that followed.” —Benedict Nightingale, The Times

“...as intimate and subtly plotted as a piece of chamber music” —Rachel Halliburton, The Evening Standard

“A dazzling cabaret that brings tears to the cheek” —The Evening Standard

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