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Which is your favourite Chekhov play?

Which is your favourite Chekhov play?

Robert Tanitch reviews Uncle Vanya at Hampstead Theatre, London NW3 Which is your favourite Chekhov play? Is it Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard or Uncle Vanya? Many would say Uncle Vanya, which prem ...
Chekhov is given a modern overhaul

Chekhov is given a modern overhaul

Robert Tanitch reviews Uncle Vanya at Almeida Theatre, London N1. It doesn’t look like Chekhov. It doesn’t sound like Chekhov. Vanya is called John and Astrov is called Michael. Waffles is called Cart ...
Two famous Russian plays acted in Russian

Two famous Russian plays acted in Russian

Robert Tanitch reviews Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters at Wyndham’s Theatre, London WC2 Moscow’s Mossovet State Academic Theatre is here for two weeks with two plays by Anton Chekhov, directed by Andrei ...