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Book SynopsisFirst 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
Trade Review" Yes. Well now. My boredom. The second cause is that I think I'm very clever - and extraordianarily important. Entering a house, talking, keeping silent, reciting at a literary soire, stuffing myself at Testov's, whatever I do is with magnificent aplomb! If I can't utter, then I smile ironically, shrug my shoulders, interrupt. Yes. The truth is that deep down this ignorant uncultured Asiatic is actually quite content. Yet I pretend to be dissatisfied with everything. The trouble is I do it so well that sometimes I believe it myself."
Table of ContentsChapter 1 A Moscow Hamlet; Chapter 2 Swan Song (Calchas); Chapter 3 Accounts; Chapter 4 On The Harmfulness of Tobacco;
